Re: drive partition on install

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Sam Tregar wrote:

> I'm not an official source, but I'd lay it out like this:
>
>  /boot  100MB
>  swap   1024MB
>  /      everything else
>
> The /boot partition is useful to work around problems some BIOS have
> with booting a kernel that's too far into the disk (past 8GB, if
> memory serves).  1GB of swap is generally right for 512MB of memory.
> Then I just partition the rest as one big / partition.

I'd agree except for the swap size. I'd just make it equal to your RAM 
size. UNLESS you know you are going to use a lot of memory for a certain 
function.

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