Re: Optimum partition sizes for RH 5.0 on 1.6G drive

["Brian Koontz <briank crss gar esys com>" <briank crss gar esys com>]

On Dec 9,  1:54pm, Patrick Hays wrote:

>  swap       30    (I have 64 MB physical memory)
>  /          150
>  /usr       leftovers = 870
>  /home      200
>  /usr/local 200
>  /usr/src   100
>  /var       50
>
>
> Anyone for a second round of comments?  I certainly appreciate
> everyone's suggestions thus far..

Sure, I'll throw in my two-cents' worth.  I would probably set your swap the
amount of RAM you have on board, especially if you plan to add more memory in
the future.  Although the chances are close to nil you will ever use that much
swap space, what's the use of swap space that can't hold anywhere near the
amount of memory on-board?

At 16M on one of my machines, Linux routinely allocates nearly the whole swap
partition, especially when I have the X server running and a couple of Applix
windows up.  8M of swap in this situation simply would not have cut it.
 Usually the amount of swap is closer to 12M or so.

  --Brian