On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 06:35 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
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.
The 2x ram figure for swap was always very arbitrary, according to what I have read. In fact, these days with ram being comparatively cheap there is argument for reducing that swap ratio, or even having NO swap partition at all - especially if you are looking at >1GB of ram in your machine. Your partitioner will alert you when you try and configure a system like that, but I have setup a suse system with no swap when I had 2GB of ram and it ran just as stable as if I had a swap. After all, it would be ridiculous to slavishly follow that old ratio and for me to have allocated 4GB to swap in that system!
Would it be best not to use the third one as a swap drive and leave the swap drive on the root drive?
If you must have swap, yes it would be best to have it on the first sectors of the root drive and leave the other drive spare for a different partition, say /var /usr /opt or /tmp. How you allocate things depends entirely on what size drives you have. Gavin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org