Ding, plenty of good advice has been given on this thread. Contrary to popular belief, it's not required to partition everything out like /temp, /var, and /boot. I have yet to see a benefit of going through that much work, but to each his own.
Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 23:11, Ding Pogina Gwapopa <[email protected]>wrote: > Guys still you havent given any good advice... > Im no user of SuSe, just Ubuntu for desktop and CentOS for servers. > > Here is my manual setup of my desktop with WinXP > * /boot 100MB - I really create a partition for this one, make sure I > can boot up my box even though others get full > * /tmp 2-4GB - I am a developer, most of the time, I use the default > temp folder as read/write folder for different activity. This will > make sure that my main partition will not get full if ever I got a > endless loop app that writes on file.. geez. lol > * /home or /root 5-10GB - where you personal files should sit down. Me > I am using /home/<username> on one of my ubuntu home desktop to use > NTFS or FAT format, this partition is also being use on my WinXP > pointed to be as 'My Documents' folder. > * /swap 2GB - when my box in hyper mode (toxic) it reaches only upto > 85% usage, never recorded of higher than that.. Try running VM/Virtual > Box to see what I mean. But not higher as 4GB... useless for me.. > * / for everthing else you would like to feed your box from the REPO, > maybe including VM hard drive space. lol > * WINXP partition, set it to 30GB to hold my windows Apps and games.. > lol Have to have both, im a developer, wish I had a mac also. lol > > Hope this one help though > cheers. > > > > > On Feb 23, 8:26 pm, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree. Too much swap can actually slow down your computer. I advise > > equal to or less than your physical RAM. Many people advise twice your > > RAM, but with today's W7 computers coming with 4 - 8 GBs as standard > > the old recommendations need to be downgraded. As Jeremiah says you > > can adjust it later. > > > > Roy > > > > Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit > > Location: Canada > > > > On 23 February 2011 06:52, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I totally disagree on the 5GB of swap. That is way too much. Zach, try > this: > > > After you have had your computer running for half the day and have been > > > using it just as long, run the "free" command from a console window and > > > check the results. You'll see how much actual swap is being used, I > promise > > > it won't be much at all even with several of your common programs > running. > > > There are ways to increase your "swapiness", but you'll find out that > is > > > will slow your machine down a bit (HD storage rather than RAM storage), > even > > > though you can run more programs at once. > > > > > Jeremiah E. Bess > > > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four > > > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 01:48, Zachary Harper <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > >> Hello Monti.I'm no guru, but based on my experience you want the > actual > > >> install partition to be roughly 18 Gb and then use up what ever is > left as > > >> your home partition for files and such. If your on a laptop. then you > may > > >> want ot make a swap partition with about 5 Gb. Again, I am by no means > a > > >> linux guru, but this has been the advice given to me and has worked > > >> beautifully for me personally. > > >> Good luck with SuSE, and hope this helped. > > > > >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:37 PM, AliLasVegas <[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > > > >>> Hi, I want to install SuSE 11.3 to dual boot with WIN7. How much > > >>> space would I designate for Linux if I want to only use 50GB of Hard > > >>> Drive space? How would I go about sizing and partitioning the hard > > >>> drive...I have a 640GB HDD with Windoze on it and a 2TB drive almost > > >>> naked... > > > > >>> Kindest Regards, > > > > >>> Monti > > > > >>> -- > > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux > Users > > >>> Group. > > >>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > >>> To unsubscribe, send email to > > >>> [email protected] > > >>> For more options, visit our group at > > >>>http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > > >> -- > > >> check out my site for updates about random things and the ability to > shout > > >> at me. > > >>https://sites.google.com/site/kalem333 > > >> I work on it everyday, so I swear it will get better everytime you > visit. > > >> Unless I contract some horrible sickness or get attacked by a bear. > > > > >> -- > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux > Users > > >> Group. > > >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > >> To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > > >> For more options, visit our group at > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > > Group. > > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > > > For more options, visit our group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. 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