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Do I need to worry about swap?
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Posted by: ason

I'm not an expert on any of this stuff, and I was going through all the pages on swap files, but I am confused. . .

Last night, I successfully upgraded an 80 hour Series 2 Tivo by adding an additional 80GB drive that I had laying around. I used MFSTools 2.0.

Backup and everything went fine, but when I got to the restore part, I tried to use the "-s 127" but it said the that the backup target was not large enough for the backup to install.

I ended up restoring using "s -64" and that worked. I tried higher numbers, but none of the seemed to work. I'm assuming this is because I am using a B drive that is the same size as my original A drive.

My question is, do I need to worry about future problems if I get the GSOD? Based on what I read, I feel like I should be okay with a Series 2 Tivo at 160GB total, but I just wanted to make sure. . .

If there is a potential future problem, is there something I can do now to prevent it?

Any help would be much appreciated.
-Thanks

Posted by: ason

Can anyone help?

Posted by: Robert S

The threshold for Series 2 TiVoes is 180Gb, so you're OK.

Posted by: alienman

So I'm about to upgrade my Sony SVR 3000 w/ a 160 GB (I believe max I will see is 137 according to what I've read). Will the -s127 command work and do I need to do anything different than what's posted on Hindsdale's guide??? Total space will be approx. 217 Gb once all is said n done.

thanks!