OK, now that we managed to get the installation transferred to the new machine using clonezilla, just one more question.
When I did the transfer, of course it duplicated the original partitions, so we had /, swap and home.
The swap partition is sized for the old system, so it is only a bit under 2G. However, the new system has 4G memory.
What is the right thing to do? Reclaim some space (it would need to be from / which is 20G or so, so it would be possible to take 6G fairly safely? Leave it alone? Delete it - because do we really need a swap partition if we have 4G memory?
Peter
On 3 February 2011 07:41, Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-first@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
The swap partition is sized for the old system, so it is only a bit under 2G. However, the new system has 4G memory.
What is the right thing to do? Reclaim some space (it would need to be from / which is 20G or so, so it would be possible to take 6G fairly safely? Leave it alone? Delete it - because do we really need a swap partition if we have 4G memory?
Have you done a web search for this?
Some examples of searching the Internet:
http://serverfault.com/questions/166184/why-should-swap-size-be-same-or-larg...
http://serverfault.com/questions/19007/how-big-should-be-the-swap-partition
Good luck,
Srdjan
On Thu, February 3, 2011 07:41, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
What is the right thing to do?
I'd do nothing. Firstly see if you do actually need the swap space or not. If you do really need more swap then for 2.6.something onwards kernels there's zero performance penalty for using a swap file instead of a swap partition. Just add as much as you need.
-
Martin A. Brooks -
Peter Alcibiades -
Srdjan Todorovic