As I'm increasing the RAM installed to the threefold of what there is now, I wonder if I have to change/resize the swap partition.
(At present the swap is a small bit larger, 364 MB, than memory installed. I sometimes read advice that the swap partitions should be _twice_ the installed RAM; but I wonder why: wouldn't this be in function of how many processes, and especially X-windows, are in use a a same time ? As the single main memory hog to run on this machine is just one, 1, application in one, again: 1, window, it dowsn't seem evident to waste over 2 GB of HD space ?) If resizing is adviseable: What's the best procdure ? As it is, with this (Mdk-)install, there is quite a large, almost empty partition devised as /home directory which would be the evident candidate to get cut and parted, and I would prefer to not touch at all on the other existing ones. So I'd like best to define an all new "swap" and likewise new "/home" from that (emptied) /home space, and to redefine the old swap space of the HD as just some other data (or for the "users" /homes) storage. // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-12-07 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
