On 10/10/2012 03:22 AM, Wally Lepore wrote: > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Wolf Halton <wolf.hal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The sizes look sane. >> 2*ram=swap If your machine hibernates, all the contents of ram goes to swap. >> 15GB / plenty of space. >> .5GB Boot partition. Safe enough, but every 3 months or so, check capacity >> with df -h as the drive can fill up with old Linux images. >> The rest for home files makes sense as well. > > Hi Wolf, > > I have 1 gig of DDR RAM. Thus your suggesting I make the swap 2 gigs? > I do let my system hibernate. Also, if I set the swap to 2 gigs, then > the Appendix section 'C3' says, > > On some 32-bit architectures (m68k and PowerPC), the maximum size of a > swap partition is 2GB. That should be enough for nearly any > installation. However, if your swap requirements are this high, you > should probably try to spread the swap across different disks (also > called “spindles”) and, if possible, different SCSI or IDE channels. > The kernel will balance swap usage between multiple swap partitions, > giving better performance. -end- > > Not sure if this applies to me and my system?
I think having more swap is not a problem. The only problem occurs if you are going to use this swap because you run out of ram. Then the system will slow down a lot. > Not to get 'over-partitioned' here but after reading the appendix > section titled, > C.3. Recommended Partitioning Scheme > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs03.html.en > > and specifically in Appendix section 'C3' where it says, > > "For multi-user systems or systems with lots of disk space, it's best > to put /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home each on their own partitions > separate from the / partition." -end- > > I'm now thinking I should set something up like this: > > /boot > / > /usr > /var > /home > /tmp > Swap The system I am currently running uses only two partitions: "/" and Swap. Therefore it should also be ok to put everything on a single partition or (as you originally planned) to separate "/home" in order to be able to re-install the system without deleting your user-files. > The section Appendix 'C3' also says, > > "You might need a separate /usr/local partition if you plan to install > many programs that are not part of the Debian distribution. If your > machine will be a mail server, you might need to make /var/mail a > separate partition. Often, putting /tmp on its own partition, for > instance 20–50MB, is a good idea. If you are setting up a server with > lots of user accounts, it's generally good to have a separate, large > /home partition. In general, the partitioning situation varies from > computer to computer depending on its uses." -end- > > Based on the above, can a directory/partition be named /usr/local ? > and /var/mail ? I thought a directory can have only one name (i.e. > /usr -or- /local -or- /var -or- /mail). You can have /var on your "main" partition (which also contains "/") and mount another partition in the subdirectory "/var/mail". > Thank you > Wally -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/507512ea.9050...@web.de