[GRASS-user] Tips for setting up an new FOSS-GEO-linux-box

Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de
Sat Nov 1 22:52:30 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 07:19 -0700, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> > Partitions:
> > Do you keep your geo-data in a separate partition? I suppose yes.
> Have
> > you split further your partition based on other criteria, always
> related
> > with "working with geospatial data"?
> 
> I like putting all of my GRASS data on a seperate disk-- so that IO
> intensive operations on GIS data do not slow my machine to a crawl.
> Alternatively a scratch disk for the /tmp/ folder might be nice too.

Dylan, could you please explain the "scratch disk"?

Thank you, Nikos



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