I totally disagree on the 5GB of swap. That is way too much. Zach, try this: After you have had your computer running for half the day and have been using it just as long, run the "free" command from a console window and check the results. You'll see how much actual swap is being used, I promise it won't be much at all even with several of your common programs running. There are ways to increase your "swapiness", but you'll find out that is will slow your machine down a bit (HD storage rather than RAM storage), even though you can run more programs at once.
Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 01:48, Zachary Harper <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Monti.I'm no guru, but based on my experience you want the actual > install partition to be roughly 18 Gb and then use up what ever is left as > your home partition for files and such. If your on a laptop. then you may > want ot make a swap partition with about 5 Gb. Again, I am by no means a > linux guru, but this has been the advice given to me and has worked > beautifully for me personally. > Good luck with SuSE, and hope this helped. > > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:37 PM, AliLasVegas <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, I want to install SuSE 11.3 to dual boot with WIN7. How much >> space would I designate for Linux if I want to only use 50GB of Hard >> Drive space? How would I go about sizing and partitioning the hard >> drive...I have a 640GB HDD with Windoze on it and a 2TB drive almost >> naked... >> >> Kindest Regards, >> >> Monti >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > > > -- > check out my site for updates about random things and the ability to shout > at me. > https://sites.google.com/site/kalem333 > > I work on it everyday, so I swear it will get better everytime you visit. > Unless I contract some horrible sickness or get attacked by a bear. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
