A GeForce 6600 (non-GT) is on the way to replace my X600 (non-XT). It won't, however, have the nice little HDTV output thingy that my X600 has. On the other hand, it will be 50% faster for running advanced 3D games like... The Sims 2... Which isn't available for Linux anyway.

I could have got a GeForce 6200 with half the speed and half the memory for 93% of the price, but somehow it didn't seem worthwhile.

Pixy's Tip of the Day: When you create an ext2 or ext3 filesystem under Linux, by default it will reserve 5% of the disk space for emergencies. On a one-terabyte volume, that's 50 gigabytes saved for a rainy day. And if you used the automatic partitioning option during the install, everything is one big filesystem, so you can't unmount it to fix it.

What's the tip then? You don't need to unmount it. tune2fs will work just fine on a mounted filesystem. tune2fs -m 1 will reduce the reserved space to a more modest 10 gigabytes, or you can use tune2fs -r to specify a precise number of blocks to reserve.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:08 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 A terrabyte?!?!?!

Posted by: Ted at May 16, 2005 09:13 PM (blNMI)

2 A terabyte!
And it's full.
Although once I've finished cleaning up, I'll reformat my old box and move everything back again.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 16, 2005 10:21 PM (+S1Ft)

3 I have computer envy; does that make me a bad person?

Posted by: phin at May 16, 2005 11:50 PM (Xvpen)

4 Speak English, darn you!

Posted by: Susie at May 17, 2005 12:43 AM (IPJ6q)

5 Kewl.
Thanks for sharing.
How the HELL can you have a terabyte of stuff? Isn't that like a whole Library of Congress? I've been collecting stuff for years and I don't even make a dent in my 200G drive.
phin,
As Moses said: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's GeForce 6600.

Posted by: TallDave at May 17, 2005 07:15 AM (9XE6n)

6 TallDave -
Well, I haven't deleted anything since 1996. Every new computer I buy gets all the files from my old computer dumped on it.
And then there's the anime...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 17, 2005 12:10 PM (AIaDY)

7 Also, the Library of Congress is around 20 terabytes just for the text, so I have a ways to go yet!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 17, 2005 05:29 PM (AIaDY)

8 Wow, 20TB.
I bet you got them beat for anime though!

Posted by: TallDave at May 18, 2005 02:35 AM (9XE6n)

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