Partition Suggestions

Senectus . senectus at gmail.com
Fri Jan 14 01:11:31 UTC 2005


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:08:44 +0100, Martin Schmitz <schmitz at msitc.de> wrote:
> Senectus . schrieb:
> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:10:18 -0800, Vram <lamsokvr at xprt.net> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 22:04 +0200, Simon Taplin wrote:
> >
> > I always thought that the swap partition should be double the size of
> > your ram
> 
> This was only the case with very old kernels or those of the 2.4 series
> which came with a broken vm.

Ahh thats good to know.. I'll stop doing that now :-)
 
> > and placed as the last partition for speed reasons...
> 
> Nooo, for speed reasons, it' should be the first partition.

Now I think a bit about it that does make more sense...

I still have my /home directory as a separate partition.. but that is
just to protect me from myself.. ;-)


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