Switching to AMD64

[Jack Bertram]

* John Richard Moser <nigelenki at comcast.net> [050131 22:05]:
> Jack Bertram wrote:
> > Ok, sounds like I need a new partition to experiment with this.  Thanks.
> > 
> 
> Here's a hint.
> 
> swap - 1G
> / - 4G
> /home - 30G
> 
> erase / and reinstall.
> erase / and reinstall.
> erase / and reinstall.
> erase / and reinstall.
> erase / and reinstall.
> ad infinitum
> 
> If you keep /home and / separated, it becomes trivial to wipe / and
> reinstall.  (I collapse /boot onto /, and keep swap at the beginning, as
> that's the fastest access area.)
> 
> Grow / to taste/need and keep just the system on it.  If you want 2
> installed at once, you can have two /'s, one for x86 and one for amd64.  :)

Oh - I have the space and the spare partitions.

jack at computer:~ # df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3              23G  5.8G   16G  27% /
tmpfs                 507M   16K  507M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1             118M   26M   87M  23% /boot
/dev/evms/hdh1         28G  2.9G   24G  11% /home
/dev/evms/space        21G   14G  6.5G  69% /home/space
/dev/evms/library      39G   17G   22G  44% /home/library
/dev                   23G  5.8G   16G  27% /.dev
none                  5.0M  2.8M  2.3M  56% /dev
/dev/evms/myth        200G   26M  200G   1% /home/mythdata

In addition there's around 200GB of freespace allocated to the
underlying LVM volumes, so plenty of room to play :)

j
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