> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:19:35 +0200 > From: Philippe Delavalade <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Problem partioning > > Le lundi 23 juin à 12:12, Simon Geard a écrit : > > On Sat, 2014-06-21 at 17:11 +0200, Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > > My SSD is 120GiO and 80 are still free. The RAM is 16GiO. > > > > > > I always used to have a swap partition, so I continue to make it but it's > > > perhaps not so important. > > > > Yeah, I've just upgraded my desktop machine to 20GB RAM (the 4GB it > > already had, plus 16GB added), and replaced the drive with an SSD. > > > > I didn't bother creating a swap partition on the new drive... with that > > much memory, there didn't see much point. > > Ok Simon. Next time, I will forget the swap partition :-) >
There's pros'n'cons of each approach. If you ever want to change the usage of that partition away from swap, and don't want to redo the partioning/formatting from scratch, then you could just reformat the partition as ext4 or whatever and just it as some additional ordinary storage. Or - e.g. especially if hitting ssd i/o hard - then perhaps remove it from partition-table and let the ssd firmware perhaps use it for over-provisioning; depends on the firmware and perhaps on any ((really) stupid) software that doesn't like apparent gaps in partition-table. And so on and so forth: there's lots of decision-paths; and besides, you're building b/lfs, so choose whatever you want to use/try/experiment-with/&c. rgds, akh > -- > Ph. Delavalade > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
