What if more memory is added? How would one increase the swap partition?
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Todd Flinders wrote:
I had always heard in the old days to have /var on its
own partition as a security feature. It prevents a
hacker from getting a log to flood the / partition.
That may be wrong or irrelevant now, though.
--- "Richard T. Waters" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since my last question was not as dumb as I thought,
let me see if I can get
lucky twice.
If I understand what you are suggesting, since I
have 128 meg of memory, I would
make the swap 256meg. It seems to me
that in the past I have read that once the swap gets
above 128, Linux doesn't do
much with the extra size. Am I totally daffy,
or was this a limitation that recent releases has
remedied.
If I have a 10 gig drive, can I assume that boot
stays at 64 meg? Would / stay
at 3.5 or do I want to double that
and leave the remainder for /home?
Thanks!
Christopher Molnar wrote:
I teach some classes for new Linux users. Here is
what I tell them for a 5
Gig drive. (OK, I know I am about to be corrected,
flamed, etc for this but I
can handle it [sniff] - just remember this is a
general suggestion and is not
written in stone).
Do NOT let the installer auto-partition. I have a
different opinion about
putting /var onto it's own partition. Don't.
These are in order on how I recommend creating on
a 5 gig drive:
/boot = 64 meg
Swap = 2 times the amount of physical memory in
your machine. More if a
server (probably 4 times).
/ = 3.5 Gig
/home = remainder of all drive space.
This seems to let them do a full development
install and it works.
(OK, let me have it!). Anyways, forgive me mailing
list Gods, but if you are
near New Haven, CT USA check out the Mandrake
Campus courses at:
http://www.innovationsw.com/training.
-Chris
Christopher Molnar wrote:
7.3 NO, No, no.
8.0 YES, Yes, yes!
Seriously, this will be a lot of major
enhancements, this won't be 7.3.
And give it a few more months. I am not sure
if you already subscribe,
but if you find the list Cooker Changelog you
can watch the progress.
-Chris
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