I am no expert, but will post here anyway. Sorry for the intrusion.
I agree with what Vincent said, decide how big you want /home to be -- but
also give some thought to the size of /swap. I have a swap of 127 MB, and
with 64 MB of RAM that seems to be a lot for the kind of software I use
(namely, web utilities, word processors, spreadsheet and, of course,
SETI@home [http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/]). I have no idea of what a
good swap size should be, but I infer that the top limit for it (127MB) is
probably too much if you don�t use image utilities like Gimp or such. But
then again, you will have to ask an expert about that. :-)
Btw, does anyone how I can repartition my HD to make my swap smaller? The
KDE utility tells me it is empty most of the time, so I might as well just
make my / bigger. I can just use disk druid and repartition it, or will
that format all of my other partitions?
Thanks a lot,
/Gustavo Viola �^�
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It ain't over, but the fat lady is clearing her throat.
> > > Now you see why I, after two years, I only use three partitions: swap,
/ and
> > > /home. Swap is obvious. /home is where I store downloads and files I
want to
> > > keep. Everything else goes in /. When it's time to upgrade, I only
format and
> > > fresh reinstall in /. It's clean. It's efficient and I always have
the right
> > > size partitions :-)
> >
> > That makes a certain amount of sense, so, what is the magic number in
> > /? I was basicly trying do something similar by giving / it's own
> > partition. I set it for 100mb because Redhat suggested 50-80mb and I
> > wanted to be conservative. Obviously, the definition of a
> > conservative is changing but I am curious as to how big it needs to
> > be?
>
> You're looking at it the wrong way, Traci... you need to decide how big
> you want /home to be... that's the question you need to ask. Once you've
> decided that (and how big your swap is going to be) give *everything* else
> to root...
>
> For example, on my system I have:
>
> swap - 70MB
> /home - 2GB
> / - 11GB
>
> Why? Well, this gives 2GB for user files and downloads and whatnot.. more
> than enough I think. The other 11GB goes on root... if you don't
> specifically make a /var, or /usr or any other partition for a directory
> off the root directory, it all becomes a part of the / partition... make
> sense? For example, that 11GB is being shared by /var, /etc, /usr, /sbin,
> and so forth. That way I don't have to worry about how much to give /var,
> of if I've given /sbin too much, or any other problem associated with
> defining limits for directories. I always found that silly, tried it
> once, and it pissed me off so much I reinstalled just to make (to me) a
> *proper* directory structure (which is swap, /home, and / and that's it).
>
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