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

[Christian Simonutti <e9626812 student tuwien ac at>]

Tom Diehl wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Patrick Hays wrote:
>
> > The following responders all suggested swap < my physical RAM in this
> > thread:
> >
> > David Stern <kotsya u washington edu>
> > Donovan Rebbechi <elflord pegasus rutgers edu>
> > Ric Tibbetts <tibbetts oz net>  (recommended 32-64)
> > Tom Diehl <tdiehl pil net>  (indirectly by agreeing with Ric)
> >
> > No one as best as far as I know agreed with my initial assignment of 100
> > MB.
>
> It will not hurt but I think it is more than you need. I have 32 megs of ram
> with 50 MB swap and I have never used it all (running out is a bad thing
> and I have run out with 20 or 30 X is a memory hog). Right now it is sitting
> there with about 17Mb swapped out which is where It usually is. This is really
> a personal decision. I usually put swap as the last partition on the disk
> so that I can move things around easier but again it is up to you. What
> works for othere may or may not work for you. I have 11 permanent partitions
> on my machine because it makes it easier to reconfigure disk space as well
> as adding disks. Some people would argue that that is too many (or maybe even
> not enough). It works for me. I worked my particular scheme out over the last
> 4 years. After many different schemes, I like what I now have best.
> Of course having a 1 gig and a 3.2 gig disk helps alot. These things have
> gotten so cheap. I just bought another 3.2 gig fireball last week for my son
> for $195.00. I remember the days that I paid $300.00 for 100MB and then
> $300.00 for 400MB and then $300.00 for 1 gig.  Lets see what can I get for
> $300.00 today 4 or 5 gig perhaps :-).
>
> Sorry for the ramblings.
>
> Hope this helps YMMV.
>
> ......Tom                       "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
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>
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i also have 32MB of ram. once, i had a lot of navigator-windows opened an some
graphics too, my swap-partition of 64MB was completly filled ab. now i increased
the swap partition to 100MB. 36MB more or less for the system does not mind on an
2GB harddisk.

but there is another question. why do all the people split up their harddisk in so
many differnt partitions?

simon

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