Hi Kastus, 256Mb swap partition works fine in SuSE 6.4. I understand that previous kernels had the 128Mb swap limit - later kernels seem to have raised this to around 1Gb. Perhaps some other folk could comment... Best regards, Des Aubery... (adTherm Technologies, East London, E.Cape, South Africa) kastus wrote:
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Des Aubery wrote:
Hi Jon,
I initially considered splitting up the files system along similar lines to you, but on second thought opted to use the simple approach as I listed (repeat below):
2. My partition scheme is as follows - in order: a. 1 sector -> /boot b. 512Mb -> swap (answer to point 3.) c. 10Gb -> / d. Remainder -> /home
My logic was as follows:
1. I felt that it was preferable to leave all system, package and related software in the / (root) directory. This allows SuSE to put files into the relevant folders/directories as it sees fit. In other words - /usr ... /usr/local ... /var ... /dump ... /tmp ... are all located in the / partition.
2. Splitting up the directories invariably means that a lot of space gets wasted in each partition - this can add up...and so wastes a lot of space :-(
3. I split my "/home" partition into a number of user-group areas anyway - and tend to keep an master archive of additional software - in this partition - until it is archived to CD-rom.
4. I see no point in running 2 X 128Mb swapdisks - I would rather use 1 x 256Mb.
How can single 256Mb swap partition be used? AFAIK, it can't be bigger than 128Mb, but you can combine many swap partitions.
-Kastus
5. I find a simple system is easier to maintain... :-)
Jon Tillman wrote:
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Derek Fountain spewed forth into the void:
So, would the following be considered needlessly complex?
[swap] 128M x2 / 001G /boot 1 sector /usr 010G /usr/local 007G /home 010G /var 500M /dump 002G /tmp 100M
That would leave /opt in a 1 gig partition. Is that a bit of a squeeze? I have over 2 gigs of stuff in /opt on the SuSE-6.4 machine I'm typing this on.
Good point, I should probably shave some off here and there, probably from /usr and /usr/local (1g apiece maybe)
Have lots of fun ...
Best regards,
Des Aubery... (adTherm Technologies, East London, E.Cape, South Africa)
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