Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-08 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:48:52AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Hi! I have told newbie installers to create as the first partition a small 50 MB for /boot, then swap 200% RAM and the rest root. The /boot is there to avoid problems with 1024 cylider limit for placing the kernel image on PC

Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-05 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Hi! So far we have two usefull partitioning schemes. Please review the numbers and the names of the schemes (the names will be shown to the users in a menu). = Name: All files in one partition (recommended for new users) Minimal Typical

Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Anton Zinoviev wrote: Hi! So far we have two usefull partitioning schemes. Please review the numbers and the names of the schemes (the names will be shown to the users in a menu). = Name: All files in one partition (recommended for new

Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:06:13PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Name: Separate home directories (future installations can preserve users data) Minimal Typical Maximal / 300Mb 3Gb 7Gb /home 100Mb 10Gb1000Gb swap 64Mb400%512Mb

Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 1.III.2004 at 20:10 Falk Hueffner wrote: Swap nowadays only serve to spill pages that haven't been accessed for hours, or to slow down the system enough so you can kill processes gone haywire; therefore, it is not performance critical and a swap file will do just fine and is more

Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-02 Thread Falk Hueffner
Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1.III.2004 at 20:10 Falk Hueffner wrote: Swap nowadays only serve to spill pages that haven't been accessed for hours, or to slow down the system enough so you can kill processes gone haywire; therefore, it is not performance critical and a

Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-01 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Anton Zinoviev wrote: Hi! The partitioning schemes of partman-auto currently are only examples. So if you have some idea for usefull partitioning just tell it. I have to know what partitions your scheme has and an example size of each partition as well as the minimal and the maximal

Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-01 Thread Falk Hueffner
Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The partitioning schemes of partman-auto currently are only examples. So if you have some idea for usefull partitioning just tell it. I have to know what partitions your scheme has and an example size of each partition as well as the minimal

Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
Falk Hueffner wrote: This is the only partitioning scheme which in my opinion fits for users who might go with whatever the default is: / Whole harddisk swapnone, but 512M swap file (independent of memory) I also wouldn't mind having this scheme available, although I think the

Re: Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-03-01 Thread Falk Hueffner
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Falk Hueffner wrote: This is the only partitioning scheme which in my opinion fits for users who might go with whatever the default is: / Whole harddisk swapnone, but 512M swap file (independent of memory) I also wouldn't mind having

Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-02-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Hi! The partitioning schemes of partman-auto currently are only examples. So if you have some idea for usefull partitioning just tell it. I have to know what partitions your scheme has and an example size of each partition as well as the minimal and the maximal usefull size. For example