Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3175 mails)

["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

dwain wrote:
> I am planning on adding a third hard drive to my mix.  I will be buying
> 2 new larger ones, one for root and one for home and i would like to use
> the third one as a swap drive.
>   
Swap is typically 2x your RAM.  I haven't seen a HD available that small
for long time.  Just provide a swap partition, typically 1-2 GB, but
more if needed, on your root drive.
> Would it be best not to use the third one as a swap drive and leave the
> swap drive on the root drive?
>   
Yes.  Not sure what size drives you are talking about (why you are
buying 2 but adding only a 3rd?), but the smallest you can buy at my
local supplier now is 80 GB, way too much for swap.
> I also want to copy my home drive to the new larger drive.  Are there
> any issues I need to be aware of that could cause some problems with
> regard to data access and such?
>   
No, you will find this a much more friendly activity in linux than you
were used to in Windows.

-- 
Joe Morris
Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64





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