Slow 12.04 on a Netbook with LVMs

[Liam Proven]

On 24 April 2013 18:35, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an Asus EeePC running 12.04.2 set up with 3 Pencrypted partitions:
>
> One for the / (System); One for swap and one for /home
>
> The system becomes slower and slower. I noticed that the encrypted
> partitions are set up as extended (=not primary). I read somewhere that that
> slows down the file access.
>
> I want to redo the installation, and I have a few questions:
>
> Can I use an external hard drive formatted as NTFS to backup the files on
> /home (ext4)?
> I want to create only primary type partitions, I remember that it asks for
> an extended type partition when configuring the encryption.
> I'd like to create the swap space as a file, not a partition.
> It's a 160Gb SATA drive. I need as much space as possible for my Data files.
> What would be the best way to partition the drive?
> What's the best way to configure the LVMs?
>
> Thanks!

P.S. there is a script somewhere which will automatically
create/resize/remove swapfiles *on demand* but I can't remember the
name and it is not readily Googleable. I think it was called
"swapfiles" -- all one word -- or something like that, but it's late &
I can't find it.

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