dwain wrote: > I am planning on adding a third hard drive to my mix. I will be buying > 2 new larger ones, one for root and one for home and i would like to use > the third one as a swap drive. > Swap is typically 2x your RAM. I haven't seen a HD available that small for long time. Just provide a swap partition, typically 1-2 GB, but more if needed, on your root drive. > Would it be best not to use the third one as a swap drive and leave the > swap drive on the root drive? > Yes. Not sure what size drives you are talking about (why you are buying 2 but adding only a 3rd?), but the smallest you can buy at my local supplier now is 80 GB, way too much for swap. > I also want to copy my home drive to the new larger drive. Are there > any issues I need to be aware of that could cause some problems with > regard to data access and such? > No, you will find this a much more friendly activity in linux than you were used to in Windows.
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