[AuckLUG] Partitioning suggestions

[Roland Hill]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 or thereabouts, Daniel Pittman came forth with:

> "Chilling_Silence" <Chilling_Silence at orcon.net.nz> writes:

> > Personally I would go for a 1-200MB /boot partition (1GB? Overkill
> > much?  Then again, on 500GB HDDs it makes little difference I s'pose),

> Uh-huh.  Cost your about 50 cents, saves you having to worry about
> this -- and, in theory at least, gives you scope to drop a few static
> linked recovery tools on there as well, if you wish.

> (I don't bother with a distinct partition myself. :)

> > and if you've got 2GB Ram, then match it with 2GB SWAP. You're not
> > going to be short on space.. ;)

> I would generally put that at around 512MB of swap -- once you have that
> much data pushed out to disk performance is probably going to suck
> anyway and a smaller swap space will OOM-kill the offending process
> sooner.

> If you intend to use Linux suspend-to-swap stuff, though, you need to
> match your swap space to the size of memory.

I don't intend to use Linux suspend-to-swap stuff, so I will opt for a
'less that RAM' size of swap.

Thanks for the guidance all - much appreciated.

-- 
Regards,

Roland

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