Disk partition labels

Posted: 2023-09-30 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

That’s something I never had the habit of doing… labeling my disk partitions. However, I’d like to make things a bit easier to remember. After searching a bit, I came up with the following. I was doing a fresh install of Slackware and was going to format the partitions anyway.
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Multiple SWAP partitions

Posted: 2020-12-05 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: | Leave a comment

Whenever I do an install, I always create a swap partition. But how about, if I have several hard disk and I am not sure which one would be best? Or if I do not want to waste too much space of a single hard disk? Or just because.
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Swap speakers

Posted: 2017-10-08 | Author: | Filed under: media, system | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

I have a pair of active speakers and I need to swap Right and Left. Simply, cabling will be much easier this way. I cannot set this in the speakers themselves, so I searched for a software solution. I googled around and found this discussion for Ubuntu. One of the posts had the solution, that works also for Slackware.
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