On Tue, 28 May 2002 15:12, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Mon, 27 May 2002 20:46:01 -0600 (MDT), Jim Turner > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone else here may be better qualified to answer about how big each > > partition should be; but then, it really depends on what you want to do > > anyway. I believe the rule of thumb for swap is to make it about the > > same size as your physical memory. As such, I have 128 meg RAM, and a > > 128 meg swap. > > The generally accepted rule-of-thumb is to have a swap size of twice your > RAM. In your case, you would be better off with a swap of 256MB. In general > practice, there is little to gain from having a swap of over 512MB on a > standard desktop system (though it may be useful for servers and > workstations).
Not sure where the subject line came from, is this a piggyback thread? Certainly got my attention. Sounds like the hard drive is already partitioned and you have no qualms about wiping one, or more, of the partitions to install Linux on. Mandrakes Linux is real user freindly in this respect. The install has a GUI that lets you delete existng partitions without molesting others. If you are able to make the deletable area contiguous <--- big word for the day, WOOHOO!> and you allow 4Gig or more. then the install will suggest sizes for the various partitions. As a first timer, i recommend you accept the suggestions as they stand. You can always reinstall later. Leaving a Fat32 partition even if you have NTFS is also good advise as Linux reads and writes well to Fat32. NTFS can become troublesome. Ext2 WAS the main Linux partitioning filesystem of the past. But it is well dated and now is superceded by several good modern journaling filesystems. Mandrake's 'tester' has recommended on this list that he has few probs with any of them (ext3 has some iffy's) but that in his experience XFS is as close to bulletproof as it gets. This is selectable as part of the install during the partitioning phase as well. No flame war on that recommend plz. I recommend you also go for a browse through ZDNet for hardware compatability. Be prepared to keep a good log of what you do post install that effects your system. Oh... yeah, i say to much sometimes chow -- Michael
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