On Thursday 20 Mar 2008, Abhijit Paithankar wrote:
snip ...
Everything else goes to /. All in a single file system.
I strongly profess /home on a different partition - other posts have
already made a case for it.
This configuration usually works out to be the best for personal
Hi,
I am starting a new thread instead of replying to the original post...
I would like to know the ideal swap partition size for new computers which
typically come with 1 Gigs of RAM.
Personally, I never recommend a swap partition of more that 500-600 MB,
because typically I have seen that
On 20-Mar-08, at 12:10 PM, Devendra Laulkar wrote:
I would like to know the ideal swap partition size for new
computers which
typically come with 1 Gigs of RAM.
ideal is no swap - swap slows things down, and with gigs of RAM you
dont need swap. But keep a 500 MB swap space handy for
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Arun Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The rest of the disk into 10GB slices for LVM PE.
Put /home on a LVM.
Any particular reason for 10 GB slicing?
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I searched up and found this interesting link..
http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/AUnix1/Partitioning.htm
i think it is really worth reading for anybody...
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On 20-Mar-08, at 1:13 PM, ഓം wrote:
I searched up and found this interesting link..
http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/AUnix1/Partitioning.htm
nice read - now if I could only find that article that specifies what
goes where in the / - what to put in /bin, or /sbin or /usr/bin etc etc
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On Thursday 20 Mar 2008 13:37:02 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 20-Mar-08, at 1:13 PM, ഓം wrote:
I searched up and found this interesting link..
http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/AUnix1/Partitioning.htm
nice read - now if I could only find that article that specifies what
goes where in the / -
Hi,
I would like to know the ideal swap partition size for new
computers which
typically come with 1 Gigs of RAM.
ideal is no swap - swap slows things down, and with gigs of RAM you
dont need swap. But keep a 500 MB swap space handy for those rare
occasions when you may need swap - and
On 20-Mar-08, at 1:44 PM, श्रीधर नारायण
दैठणकर wrote:
nice read - now if I could only find that article that specifies what
goes where in the / - what to put in /bin, or /sbin or /usr/bin
etc etc
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hiersektion=7
ask and you shall receive -
On Thursday 20 Mar 2008 13:42:25 Devendra Laulkar wrote:
Problem with no swap is that, when you do run out of RAM on a rainy day,
your computer just locks up for some time and an application gets killed
of to make space. Having swap space makes the computer slow down, but it
gives some time to
--- Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hiersektion=7
ask and you shall receive - thanks. I remember long ago
when I used
to use my system as root and put all sorts of
/directories until I
got royally flamed - also got rootkitted.
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Devendra Laulkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am starting a new thread instead of replying to the original post...
I would like to know the ideal swap partition size for new computers which
typically come with 1 Gigs of RAM.
As rightly mentioned
On 3/20/08, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
nice read - now if I could only find that article that specifies what
goes where in the / - what to put in /bin, or /sbin or /usr/bin etc etc
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hiersektion=7
Also, maybe
On 20-Mar-08, at 1:42 PM, Devendra Laulkar wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know the ideal swap partition size for new
computers which
typically come with 1 Gigs of RAM.
ideal is no swap - swap slows things down, and with gigs of RAM you
dont need swap. But keep a 500 MB swap space handy for
On Thursday 20 Mar 2008 21:22:09 शंतनु महाजन (Shantanoo Mahajan) wrote:
How about having loopback mounted file to be used as swap instead of
whole
partition? This way you can increase/decrease the swap size. You can
have
multiple swaps. And since swap will be used occasionally, it
On Thursday 20 Mar 2008, ഓം wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Arun Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The rest of the disk into 10GB slices for LVM PE.
Put /home on a LVM.
Any particular reason for 10 GB slicing?
No hard or fast rule, I have found 10GB as a nice round number. They
Hi,
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