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[Maverick/Maverick] One freeze, not other one

Asked by sam-c

Maverick Freezes on this Lenovo Desktop?
I have two Maverick Partitions, This one does NOT Freeze. the other one Does?
What can/should I check?!

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#1

Can you post partition table ?

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sam-c (cohensam) said : 		#2

fdisk -l report:
sda7 is working just now
sda10 is the problematic
gparted does not let me create a report
What other command can help?
Thanks Sam
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Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e7897

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 18243 19457 9759487+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 5258 18242 104301950+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 * 1 2872 23069308+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 18182 18242 489982+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 5258 5360 827284+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 5361 7850 20000893+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 7851 10655 22531131 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 10656 11929 10233373+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 11930 13145 9765888 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 16965 18180 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 14797 16964 17406976 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

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Best delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#3

Your partition scheme looks a little complicated.
1) It's useless to have two swap partition, you can remove one of them, and get some more disk space.
2) Having two installation of same distros is quite unusual. Why did you choose such configuration ? Perhaps there is a simpler solution.
3) If you have two Maverick installed on your computer, and each one has its own "/boot" folder (inside it's own "/" folder), the MBR which is a start of disk will use only one of both. The Grub2 menu and kernel is in both distros, but only one will be used; which of last installed (or perhaps which of last one who updated its kernel). If you want to have many Linuxes on a PC, I think you'll have to make a dedicated "/boot" partition shared by all Linuxes (including Fedora, ...) which will all shared Linux kernel and Grub2 files. So MBR will always use the same boot.

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sam-c (cohensam) said : 		#4

Thanks Delance, I decided to Delete the Problematic Maverick Partition.
Also I took most of your Advice, thanks, about swap grub2.

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sam-c (cohensam) said : 		#5

Thanks delance, that solved my question.