I would reconsider before using a very small extra drive for a swap
partition. Old, small drives are much, much slower than large drives. And
50 meg is only 2 percent of your 2.5 gig, you'll never miss it. A swap
partition is of course used as memory when your machine runs low on physical
ram, and so a slow hard drive will slow down performance any time that Linux
needs to use swap space. If you really want the space, set up the 50 meg
drive and use it for small apps or other little stuff, but I'd put the swap
space on your fastest drive.
Tim Wasson <wassontj at intcon.net>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Behnert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 23, 1998 5:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Partitioning large HD
>
> (Sorry - my English is rather poor, so don't wonder... :-)
>
> I want to use a 2.5 GB Hardddisk for Linux. What's the best way
> to partition it? There is no need for a swap partition because a
> second 50MB HDD will be used for that.
> Is it useful to split the large HDD into multiple partitions,
> for instance one for /usr and one for /var or is it better to
> use the whole HDD as one primary partition (Linux can handle
> primary partitions > 2 GB, can it?)
> What Inode should I use - 1024? 4096?
>
> Any help would be appreciated...
>
> Thank you!
>
> Andreas
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