On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Wolf Halton <wolf.hal...@gmail.com> wrote: > The sizes look sane. > 2*ram=swap If your machine hibernates, all the contents of ram goes to swap. > 15GB / plenty of space. > .5GB Boot partition. Safe enough, but every 3 months or so, check capacity > with df -h as the drive can fill up with old Linux images. > The rest for home files makes sense as well.
Hi Wolf, I have 1 gig of DDR RAM. Thus your suggesting I make the swap 2 gigs? I do let my system hibernate. Also, if I set the swap to 2 gigs, then the Appendix section 'C3' says, On some 32-bit architectures (m68k and PowerPC), the maximum size of a swap partition is 2GB. That should be enough for nearly any installation. However, if your swap requirements are this high, you should probably try to spread the swap across different disks (also called “spindles”) and, if possible, different SCSI or IDE channels. The kernel will balance swap usage between multiple swap partitions, giving better performance. -end- Not sure if this applies to me and my system? Not to get 'over-partitioned' here but after reading the appendix section titled, C.3. Recommended Partitioning Scheme http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs03.html.en and specifically in Appendix section 'C3' where it says, "For multi-user systems or systems with lots of disk space, it's best to put /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home each on their own partitions separate from the / partition." -end- I'm now thinking I should set something up like this: /boot / /usr /var /home /tmp Swap The section Appendix 'C3' also says, "You might need a separate /usr/local partition if you plan to install many programs that are not part of the Debian distribution. If your machine will be a mail server, you might need to make /var/mail a separate partition. Often, putting /tmp on its own partition, for instance 20–50MB, is a good idea. If you are setting up a server with lots of user accounts, it's generally good to have a separate, large /home partition. In general, the partitioning situation varies from computer to computer depending on its uses." -end- Based on the above, can a directory/partition be named /usr/local ? and /var/mail ? I thought a directory can have only one name (i.e. /usr -or- /local -or- /var -or- /mail). Thank you Wally -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caldxikomdvhw7ezzx14uay1ygkg58reymeuddgkd98vy5fi...@mail.gmail.com
