[ltp] Slackware on T42?

[Bob Alexander]

Eben King wrote:
  > Semi-WAG: "Logical Volume Management", a system where you can add (and
> subtract?) chunks of discontiguous disk space without repartitioning.
> 

Yes, Eben I have just shrunk my oversized /var to 1.5GB. Very simple.

unmount /var
e2fsck -f /var
resize2fs /dev/vg1/lvvar 1500M
lvreduce /dev/vg1/lvvar -L1500M
mount /var

Smooth as silk !

On another track. There was an interesting article about one year ago in 
which someone tested Gentoo "optimized" kernels against "stock" kernels 
from Mandrake and others and surprisingly the Gentoo user tweked kernels 
where underperforming.

A last "pro Debian" pitch. As opposed to RH, SuSE, Mandrake (the ones I 
have worked with), Debian does let you tweak things to a very high 
degree with little GUIs interfering.

You can do an experiment. Burn the latest Knoppix live CD pop it into 
your laptop and play with it as much as you like to get a real life, 
first hand impression. It will not touch your hard disk in any way. 
After that you could either go for a sarge netinst or if you are a lazy 
guy which doesn't mind having some 2000 packages installed you can do a 
Knoppix hd install which basically clones Knoppix on your hard disk. 
After that you are left with a fairly standard Debian system which you 
can tweak at your own leisure. I personallly like a minimal sarge 
netinst and then select the packages I need one by one.

HTH,
Bob