[tlinux-users:07499] Re: Anyone having any luck with....

* Alex Nikitin <[email protected]> [2005-11-27 21:13:31 -0500]:

> > Second, anything more than 512 MB for the swap partition is overkill and
> > would not be used.
> 
> except for servers which are planning to be test grounds for, for example
> UML or VM networks or are planning to run a lot of services (and it would
> have to be a lot a lot), which are different from laptops anyways...

I heard of "twice the RAM" to be allocated for swap as a thumbs rule.
Well I have two swaps, where one is reserved for software suspend.

> The idea behind partitioning for a lot of people is that if they decide
> > to move to another distro ore for some other reason they need to
> > re-install, they can leave /home intact and just format the other
> > partitions.(this preserves your data)
> 
> no, no, the idea behind partitioning off some system folders lies solely in
> efficiency of the system and its security, however, i admit, partitions do
> come in handy when you want to switch distros.

Can you explain where you locate the "efficiency of the system and its
security" to be supported by partitioning? Well, you have *one* drive
and having more than one partition seems not to be accelerating my
system that much. For security reasons though- it's obvious.

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Best regards,

Fred Thiele                    GnuPG-Key: 0x4F6BE238 <[email protected]>

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