Hi Most of the points are covered. But my 2 bit
1. a separate home makes backing up easier. 2. In event of a crash (which unfortunately can be expected in the more modern cutting edge distros) makes user data vulnerable and its better off in a separate partition 3. While the software is installed in / (root) the preferences some user data etc is stored in /home/user. Which means if you reinstall you lose this. Eg if you use thunderbird all your mails are in /home/user/.mozilla-thunderbird/etc . Note the ".". If you open yor home and press ctrl+h it will show you a host of . files and folders and you can actually see what all is stored there. 4. If you can back up your data then you can use a live cd / dvd and use gpart to repartition and even move extra space from one partition to the other @ regarding swap - interesting question - how much is enough. Does any one know of any diagnostic tools that can record swap usage over a period of time (multiple log on etc) it would be good to know how much swap is actually used. ram On 12/25/09, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] <abhishek.amber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan > <ashutoshrish...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> However now, you may not re-install due to this, instead try to find out >>> what is taking up so much space. >> >> Oh no, I am not reinstalling because of that. At least not just because of >> that. The main reason is that I have a 40 GB partition which had windows >> XP >> before and now is not needed. So I wanted to utilize that. Plus, I am not >> going to loose any important data reinstalling (except some applications). >> So its all good. The few files I have, are going to Ubuntu One. Kudo for >> Ubuntu One! >> Another query, >> I read about this, but not sure: Is swap space necessary for RAM of 2 GB? > > Swap space is generally twice the size of memory, but it really > depends upon what applications you run on your system. You can refer > the following article. > > http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/8208-all-about-linux-swap-space > > > -- > With Regards > Abhishek Amberkar > > Learn to appreciate the beauty within... > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
