First time update

[bmeyer1010]

I've had my S2-649080DT for about a month or two now and have decided that if I want to record at a decent quality I need to upgrade my storage. I'm going to a 400GB drive. I've been pouring over all the sites I can and these forums and that has left me with a couple questions:

1) I noticed the sata iso is newer and has bug fixes/upgrades which include the swap space fix. I saw in a post that this iso would work witha S2. Does this mean I won't have to run the tpip command? In which case I would use an argument of -s 200. If I do need to run tpip, what is the command and arguments I should use? I've seen a few different versions out there and don't want to mess it up.

2) What command can I issue to see the size of the partitions when I'm done? A standard df command or something else?

As an aside/suggestion, I think this tpip thing should be noted in the upgrade section. I just stumbled across it as most people seem to. A simple question asking what size hard drive you were upgrading too would allow a flag to be set to output the necessary information. My upgrade instructions told me to use -s 127, which won't be sufficient (unless I am wrong in question 1 and I DO need to use the -s 127 and then run tpip). Any help is appreciated. Can't wait to start.

[WK-Michael]

1 - For many reasons, we still recommend using 127 as your swap setting. We have really not seen problems with this setting, even with larger drives.

2 - You can use:

mfsinfo /dev/hdc

We agree with ignoring tpip.

[bmeyer1010]

Thanks for the reply. From what I've been reading I thought using -s 127 on a 400GB drive would cause problems if I got a GSOD. What is your opinion on this?

[WK-Michael]

In theory, that seems to be the case, but in all the drives we've sold, we've never seen that demonstrated.

[bmeyer1010]

Thanks for you help so far. One more question, if I wanted to be "on the safe side" and just put in a 200MB swap space, will the -s 200 command work with the sata iso, or should I just use -s 127 and then run tpip afterwards. If it's the latter, what's the syntax for the tpip command? Thanks so much for your help.

[WK-Michael]

No - the -s 200 will produce no swap at all, unless you also do tpip. -s 127 is the largest that works with the stock tools.

[WK-JSP]

The weaknees_sata iso does have the mfstools bug fix that allows swap > 127MB. Here's a summary of the bug fixes in that mfstools version.

That said, there's really no evidence that you need swap > 127GB.

[bmeyer1010]

I thought that it did allow a larger swap (as I noted in note 1 of the original post). So I can indeed run -s 200 (for example) If I want 200 MB of swap without running any other tools?

[WK-Michael]

I know there are different versions of mfstools out there, but I honestly don't believe the one on the CD supports the larger swap. I could be wrong, but that's my memory of it.