On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 17:06:51 +0100 (BST) Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, David Freeman wrote:
people would recommend for the swap partition size, I have 384MB of ram, so am thinking a 256MB swap file is plenty for what I will be
doing. What
do others think?
hmmm, what will you be doing?? and also how big is your disk? I have 768Mb of Ram and a 1gig swap partition but I also have a 40Gb disk so space is not an issue, I am playing with big images (upto 300mb each) in the gimp and blender, I also run VMware with lots of resources given to virtual machines.
Big images in GIMP, plex86, Video capture, MP3 enc, CAD, electonics design, Surfing, LaTeX pretty much sumerises what I will be doing, oh and quake.
Also dare I ask what peoples views are on partitioning?
I seperate /var (around 800mb) /boot (around 30mb) /usr (around 4Gb on my machine here but depends on how much spare disk you have) /tmp (around 300mb) / (around 180mb) /etc (around 40mb) and /home however big you need it. Of course you can use less space for these but I have the spare disk so I am not bothered.
Why do you seperate all of the above?
Thanks
D
Adam
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David Freeman