I've not found a reason to use more than two partitions on a workstation in
over 10 years.
One for root, and one for home. The only reason for the home partition is so
you can nuke the system without deleting the users data.
I agree with having a minimal (1 gb) swap. If you start using swap,
>
> Say your box has 4GB of RAM. You have a 4GB swap partition. What
> happens when you use more than 8GB of RAM?
>
Long before that point you should have noticed your system is running like
a slug. I would suggest something more along the lines of 1 GB, maybe less.
I hate to pick any absolute n
> I believe you ALWAYS want a swap partition so your system doesn't crash
> when you run out of real memory. Of course you don't ever want to actually
> use it, it's more of an insurance policy, Just In Case.
Say your box has 4GB of RAM. You have a 4GB swap partition. What
happens when you use m
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:24 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
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> My new laptop has 16 GB RAM, so I didn't set it up with any swap at
> all. If you have plenty of RAM, why even bother with a swap partition?
I believe you ALWAYS want a swap partition so your system doesn't crash
when you run out of re
move/translate??? Well that was the best I could come up with for the
subject.
I'm moving to Debian from CentOS 5. I have a pile of standard iptables
rules that need to be move over. There are also scripts that modify the
iptables rules during run time -- sort of a dynamic IDS/firewall -- ve
I haven’t tried this on Linux, but on FreeBSD, I make /tmp a memory filesystem
of somewhere between 500M and 2G, depending on anticipated need.
On Jan 9, 2014, at 2:36 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I'm finishing (finally) assembly of a new server/workstation. It has a
> 60G SSD drive as /dev/sda
I thought I'd toss this out there as I'm about to augment my desktop with
an SSD too. Rather than trying to predict which files will be accessed most
frequently or benefit most from an SSD, or risk running out of space
because I failed to predict usage on a specific partition, I've been
looking at
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Robert Munro wrote:
You can avoid having a separate /opt partition by pointing it to
/usr/local.
Robert,
Good point. The described uses of /usr/local and /opt seem to
overlap extensively. I can understand the value of two sepa
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Robert Munro wrote:
>
>> You can avoid having a separate /opt partition by pointing it to
>> /usr/local.
>
> Robert,
>
>Good point. The described uses of /usr/local and /opt seem to overlap
> extensively. I can unders
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Indeed, I did check eBay.
I've noticed lately that eBay prices frequently greatly exceed the
suggested list price, and 'Net retailers are usually lower than list price.
> What the smarts do I have yet to discover.
Get folks to pay the high pr
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Robert Munro wrote:
> You can avoid having a separate /opt partition by pointing it to
> /usr/local.
Robert,
Good point. The described uses of /usr/local and /opt seem to overlap
extensively. I can understand the value of two separate partitions in an
enterprise but it do
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On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 14:36:58 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote:
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> I'm finishing (finally) assembly of a new server/workstation. It
> has a 60G SSD drive as /dev/sda and a 750G mechanical hard drive as
> /dev/sdb. I'm collecting opinions on what partitio
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