On Sunday 15 June 2003 02:34, cxiii - wrote:
When I installed SuSe I went with the default install. I have a 14 gig hard drive and 320mb of RAM. My problem is is that I left it default when installing it and it created a 640mb swap partition. In the manual it says that I wouldn?t really need that much of a swap drive considering they were thought of when memory was small. When I went to the Linux Documentation Project and downloaded one of thier documents, it talked about it as if necessary to have a large swap partition.
Which one is right? I?d like to cut it in half to save space. I tried to reinstall everything with Win98 starup disk and fdisk didn?t recognize the logical partition anyway and was fruitless. I keep a 3 gig partition for 98 only because there?s a few games I want to finish. Otherwise I?m sold with Linux and can get around pretty well. I have a k62 450. Get it, this is 2 questions.
William Fisher -- ==================
William, In reading the manuals included with SuSE, it has mention of this thing you call swap. I believe, if memory serves me, that with the new machines with large ram as yours is, only 256k swap is ever needed. That should be plenty on your setup as well or you can just half your present amount to equal your ram, if you like. Check your manuals for further clarification on swap. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...