Hi, Martin Mewes schrieb: > > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > >>> a) Standard-Usage (2 HDDs unformatted) >> This is not standard at all. I would say that all cases with >> unformatted disks are something only an advanced user sees. Another >> problem is that you specify 2 HDDs as standard. By that definition, >> any laptop would be sub-standard. > > My intention was to create a Standard for machines with more than one > hdd. To my intention machines with only one hdd are discussed within > > "[opensuse] Feature wishlist: Comment on Separate partitions for /root > and /home directories as installation default" > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... > > So "Standard" here means a profile for a machine with two hdds.
Ah OK. I sort of accumulated an answer to the multiple harddisk and better partitioning questions. >>> c) Server-Usage (4 HDDs unformatted) >>> >>> /dev/hda >>> /dev/hda1 /boot 100M >>> /dev/hda2 swap (2 times RAM) >> Why does everybody want swap to be twice the RAM size? There is no >> reason for that. Besides that, having swap on a disk which is mostly >> inactive will help. So moving swap to the disk with /var and /tmp >> makes sense. > > Maybe I am blind and maybe my knowledge here is rather old, but someday > someone said that "a good choice for swap-size is to double the amount > of RAM". I agree that swap can move to a hdd which is mostly inactive. You're not blind, but the information is based on a problem in the virtual memory subsystem which has been fixed in late 2.2 kernels, so it shouldn't even apply to debian anymore. For software suspend, you may want at least RAM size for swap if your machine is really loaded, but for the non-suspend case you're free to pick any size (even some value above 2 GB). I'm using 512 MB RAM and 256 MB swap and even suspend works just fine for me. Regards, Carl-Daniel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
