Re: [newbie] Installation of LM 6.0: Best partition size

[Thomas J Varghese]

> 
> My personal recommendation for the swap file size is about
> 300 MB - Amount of physical memory installed
> 
> Most people won't ever need more than 300 MB virtual memory, and if you
> do, you can still create temporary swap files.
> 

just curious...couldn't the swap file be a lot smaller since he has quite
a bit of ram installed? e.g., if 512MB ram, a swap file wouldn't really be
necessary, at least for a workstation setup.

Tom