What I'm up to

[memnus]

My issues with Word this week, along with some other weird things that my desktop has been doing, have opened my eyes to the fact that it has been running nearly continuously, with very little maintenance, for over a year and a half. I have more faith in Windows than the average Eastie, yes, but I'm not stupid. I know that systems get corrupted and need to be repaired. So, I'm using my still-legal demo copy of Nero to back of everything that might be even a small pain in the ass to replace, the bulk of this being a hundred and fifty hours of assorted random music. I have a stack of CDs, graciously borrowed from Mikel, and the desktop is in isolation until its critical components are transfered to said CDs. It's unplugged from the network, every unimportant application shut down, doing nothing but backup while my laptop sits greedily lapping up the fast ethernet.

The optimal architecture I'd want for my desktop would be as follows. Two twenty-gig bootable partitions for system-specific files, one with Windows and games, the other with Linux and important stuff. The other forty gigabytes would contain non-OS-specific data such as music, movies, and the like, and would be accessible by whichever OS I happen to be running under at the time. I honestly have no idea if this is feasible or remotely possible, but in a perfect world it would be, and it would be on my computer.

So - next chance I get, I need a few things. First, a stack of CDs to reimburse Mikel for the loan. Second, a CD carrier to keep them in that's not just a stack.

Yes, I survived the week. No, I'm not out of the woods yet. I have a stems lab and an E&M lab, plus E&M homework, and we should probably start working on the group project for Restivo's class. But it's over the hump, now, so I'm going to live.

I feel like wandering and being vaguely social. I actually don't feel quite like I only had three hours of sleep, oddly enough.

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Comments

[inferno0069.livejournal.com]

Would you like any space on my server? I've still got 18 GB free in my backups volume and another 101.29 GB unallocated, so it's no problem at all.

Also, fat32 is one possibility for a drive read/writeable by both windows and linux, another may be ntfs, as discussed here.

[floccinau.livejournal.com]

What you want to do with your desktop is certainly possible. When you set it up, you'll want to make 1 primary and two logical partitions; I've had windows get pissy at me for having multiple primary partitions before.

For the shared data partition, use FAT32 (vfat). NTFS is technically possible, but the native Linux driver has problems writing to NTFS and the workaround pointed to above doesn't support a lot of common activities, such as creating files.

[iluvsheep.livejournal.com]

Ditto what they all said about FAT32. It is totally the way to go if you want something that both windows and linux can read. I am using it myself and it works great. In fact, I put my entire windows system on FAT32 so that I can mux about with the windows stuff from the linux side. (Windows won't let you alter certain files that it maintains, but if you let linux at them, it will happily do whatever you want).

we should probably start working on the group project for Restivo's class

*ducks*
But in all seriousness, you are right, we should all stop writing in LJ and start writing for Restivo.

(I am *definately* not hypocritical)