On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, you wrote:
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> Are you saying that there is a seperate kernel for each partition?
No not at all, i compile every new kernel and test it, and just keep
them for comparision.
> What about swap space? Do I really need it? I thought I read somewhere that it
> should be 2.5 times the amount of ram.
Well there's so much speculation on this, the old rule of thumb,
(when ram was so expensive), 16 meg ram 32 mb swap,
However i have 64meg and 40 megs of swap space, which hardly gets
used.
did i cc to the wrong list, would not suprice me at all ;-)
> Thx
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> Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/08/99 03:11:58 AM
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Subject: Re: [newbie] Partition question...
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> On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > Ummm, your /boot partition only needs to be 5-15MB and 5 would do fine. It
> > only holds Lilo and kernels. Kernels are roughly 300Kb and Lilo is about
> > 150-300Kb. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here.
> > Brian
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> That depends on what other partitions you create, simply 5 - 15 meg
> is not enought if you only define one partition as / one as /usr and
> one as /home.
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> My / is 500mb ;
> /dev/hda1 497667 95702 376263 20% /
> /dev/hda2 1492343 816297 598934 58% /usr
> /dev/hdb1 1492311 488629 926572 35% /usr/src
> /dev/hdb2 1492343 459614 955617 32% /home
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> Imagen having 15 kernels as i do, rather a lot yes, but some have
> even more, 30 is the limit for lilo, a normal kernel is 400+ doing a
> du -b in mt /boot dir results in 7792640 /boot, tht boot alone.
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> I would advise something like 300 to 500 meg for / and the rest for
> /usr on a singel user machine, which miine is not.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > >I have a 1.5Gig drive. I had problems making my primary/boot partition
> > >larger than 500MB. I settled for a 500MB primary/boot partition, an 80MB
> > >swap partition. My question is, what should I make the 3rd partition, a
> > >primary or extended? What directory should be assigned to it? Is my sawp
> > >partition too big?(I have 32MB of RAM)
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> > >thanks in advance
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> Regards Richard
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