Putting the swap on the slower drive is a good idea on systems with a fair amount of RAM - things seldom get swapped out in that case, and usualy don't get swapped in again. Also, if the main use of the swap partition is software suspend, then it is not a problem. I only have 192M on this laptop, but swap is almost never used. But I use a small window manager...On Saturday 19 June 2004 15:49, Betti Ann & Preston Smith wrote:
Hi!
I am very much a newbie at Linux so please be patient with me and tell
me
if I am wrong
I want to install Mandrake 10.0 over my existing Fedora 2 installation which is dual booted with W98. Do I have to worry about the existing
boot
loader?
I have a current 30 Gig drive and an old 6 Gig drive on which resides Fedora. This old drive is slow so I am thinking of placing the
Mandrake 10
install on both drives. By the way, I have only 128MB of RAM and a
900 Mhz
AMD ATHLON CPU
So here is what i am thinking
Place about a 10 GB root on the 30 GB (Fast) drive.
Place about a 400 MB /swap on the 6 GB (slow) drive and use the rest
for /home
What other directories do i need?
What disk format should I use for / and /home?
Thanks for the help
Preston
First I am a newbie so what I have to say take it with a lb of salt.
I think you should put swap on the fast drive but thay may not matter since the master drive controls whether the dirve is fast or not. They may be both slow.
Below are my partitions. They are not all necessary depend on someone else for that information. I am running 10.0 Official with everything that looked interesting to me.
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6
2015544 126972 1786188 7% /
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12
24601004 32812 23318504 1% /backup
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
67313 7802 56035 13% /boot
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7
20157836 566540 19591296 3% /home
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part10
34268696 26553520 5974388 82% /music
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8
5039216 33700 4749536 1% /tmp
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9
20157836 7116148 12017716 38% /usr
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part11
8062888 850608 6802708 12% /var
Good luck.
If you feel you will be using swap space, create two swap partitions - one on each drive. Make sure the one on the slow drive is large enough to suspend to, if you will be using that feature. Depending on who you talk to, having two swap partitions, on different drives, tends to speed things up. I cann't say for sure, as most of the systems I have used didn't use much swap space...
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