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Peter Creath
11-06-2008, 12:43 PM
I'm thinking of replacing the internal drive of my S3 with a 1TB (WD10EVCS), and I have a few questions (having been out of the scene for a while):

1) What's the consensus about the proper swap size when expanding to 1TB internally?

2) Second, what exactly _does_ the WinMFS "supersize" option do? (I saw a few guesses that it reduced the amount of TiVo-reserved space.) Has anybody had any good or bad experiences with it over time?


I've seen conflicting statements about whether or not to exceed 127MB swap size when using such a large drive. A number of posts say to keep the swap at 127MB no matter what size the drive. A few others suggest a "rule of thumb" that would yield 500MB swap for a terabyte drive. Does using "-r 4" eliminate the need to expand the swap size?
Tanquen
12-05-2008, 10:50 PM
Bump, I too would like to know.
ciper
12-05-2008, 11:49 PM
Whatever you believe about the amount of swap space everyone does agree that more swap doesn't hurt the S3. Considering the size of the drive even 1GB is only .1% of the drive so why not give it 500mb. My THD ran with ~500mb of swap for 6 months without issue.

FYI the THDXL has supersize enabled from the factory. Supersize changes the amount of the drive used for "tivoclips" which are the videos used in the advertisements.
mickrussom
12-06-2008, 01:10 AM
Whatever you believe about the amount of swap space everyone does agree that more swap doesn't hurt the S3. Considering the size of the drive even 1GB is only .1% of the drive so why not give it 500mb. My THD ran with ~500mb of swap for 6 months without issue.

FYI the THDXL has supersize enabled from the factory. Supersize changes the amount of the drive used for "tivoclips" which are the videos used in the advertisements.


What is the default swap size for the THDXL?

What does supersize do? What is the original sizes of the various partitions vs. the new sizes after super-sizing?

What are the default partitions overall for the THDXL?

Is there a thread with the technical information for these type of things that is maintained?