-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:44:50 +0300 (IDT), Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
I can vouch for this from experience. In one of my Linux boxes (256 MB, about 30 logins, no X) the fstab entry for the swap was wrong and the system worked with no swap for over 2 months, nobody complained and there were no real problems. I usually dedicate 2GB for swap, but if see (by `top' or `free') that a machine routinely uses more than few 10MBs, I increase the real memory. This is the cheapest way to increase performance. > > 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. I fully agree. I think that the 8GB limit for /boot has been removed. I recently installed FC1 with / (including /boot) > 10GB. ehud - -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: use http://www.keyserver.net/ to get my key (and others) iD8DBQFAyB+9LFvTvpjqOY0RAmfPAJsG9xVg//WYrNM9THjSgaXpSB7JPwCghxGI X39PB6Kj0yrL9KlbgT44Yj4= =kl3X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================================= 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]
