On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:20:41AM -0800, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> There are many reasons to break up a Linux install into several partitions.
> For a one-user system with what is, these days, a small hard disk, they
> aren't all that compelling. In your situation I would use a single partition
> for the entire filesystem, as you have set it up.
>
> Two qualifications to that ...
>
> First, you haven't mentioned either (a) any provision for a swap partition
> or (b) how much RAM your system has. You may want to add swap space -- some
> distributions will insist on your providing it.
>
You *need* swap space. From what I've read on linux-kernel,
It screws up the memory-management alogrithims not to have
some, even if you don't ever use it, and you will notice a
performance hit.
have fun
greg
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