multiboot
Karl F. Larsen
klarsen1 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 14:44:45 UTC 2009
Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com wrote:
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>> From: Karl F. Larsen
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>> Then if the test looks good go to System-Administration-Partition
>> maker and run that and actually make a new partition for
>> Ubuntu, about
>> 20 GB and a Swap Partition of 3 GB.
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> Two questions;
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> 1) Shouldn't the swap size be twice the memory, or some such multiple?
> And, I don't think the swap can be too big. In other words, if I have
> 1GB of memory
most of the time you will not use any swap space. But sometimes it will
be needed. So in theory a 1gb swap partition is enough.
> and create a swap size of 8GB, shouldn't I be good with
> RAM upgrades through 4GB? Are there issues other than wasted space?
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> 2) Aren't swap files the recommended approach these days?
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Good lord! Where have you been? Linux has always used a "Swap
Partition" and still does.
73 Karl
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