Avrahami David wrote: > 1) I forgot the swap of course, BTW Why do I need (big) swap partition if > there is plenty physical memory ?
You don't. It's a question of do you want the system to run out of memeory or slow down when you go beyond physical memory. SunOS (the original BSD product, not Solaris) required at least as much swap as real memory. This is the source of the urban legened that Linux MUST have swap. Note that some distributions, e.g. dead rat. require 128 meg of ram to run their installer as it is written in python. That's why they turn on swap BEFORE you install on machines with less. > 2) I was wondering which partitioning method is preferred, one or two big > partition or several partitions for /, /var, /usr,/home,... Generaly Linux systemsrun with 3, /boot (to overcome 8 gig boot limitations), swap and the rest all in one large partition. Many UNIX systems have seperate root, swap, home, usr, and var partitions because one or more of them (hopefully not swap) are mounted over NFS from a master server. If you are not going to use NFS then it makes little sense to split them. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
