Mini 9

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:26:45AM -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> Hi All, My wife has a dell mini 9 netbook that has a solid state hard 
> drive 3.9GB I think.  I am concidering putting in a second solid state 
> drive 15 gig.  I'm wondering if I will be able to work in both drives as 
> though they were one or will the second drive just be a place to store 
> files.

The second: it'll be a separate drive.

It's possible to combine the two drives into one large storage space,
but setting that up is not trivial and could require reinstalling.
Also, if something bad happens to one of the two disks combined in such
a way, you would lose data on both.

Read about LVM if you think you're interested.

> If it is just storage I likely would do well to use the second 
> drive to run Ubuntu in  with the 3.9 drive as extra storage.      Any 
> ideas with this would be appreciated.

I would keep the 4 gig drive for the system, and use the 15 gig drive
for user files.

Marius Gedminas
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