I've decided to try slackware because I just got a new box. It's got a 40gb hdd; what is a good way to partition it? I was going to create separate partitions for swap, /home and /usr aside from the bootable partition, but I'm not sure what sizes to make them. What is a good distribution of hdd space?
How much swap you need depends on how much RAM you have and what you intend to do with it. / should be 5 GB for a HD as small as yours or 10 GB otherwise. /home should be everything else. Further division is pointless.
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Anonymous2009-03-28 19:40
I have all my OS;s on a 40gb drive. 10gb for xp, 10g for linux /, 10g for linux home, 2gb for swap.
Unless your'e going to be storing mp3s or anything, i'd go with the 10g root min. Slack I guess isn't too bloated but even so you want a nice buffer zone
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Anonymous2009-03-28 20:40
My friend explained Swap to me in the best way: the more swap you have, the faster your computer is. I suggest 15GB swap, anything more and you dont get much benefit.
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Anonymous2009-03-28 20:42
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The max swap you need is 2GB... anything more is a waste... your operating system wont be able to swap that much data.
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Anonymous2009-03-28 21:57
>>6
The joke here is that swap is slower than RAM, and having more will actually make your OS reference the disk more, slowing you down further.
tldr: Your an idiot.
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Wait, what?
Simply because the OS has more swap available means it will use intentionally swap to disk even when it is not yet using all RAM? I don't think so buddy.
I prefer having no swap. As long as you have at least 2gb of ram your fine.
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Anonymous2009-03-28 22:59
>>11
Yeah, just fine until your run out of RAM and all your applications crash. Not to mention you can't have no swap on 2gb of RAM anyway, unless you are running some a custom architecture with a thirty-one bit or less address space.
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Anonymous2009-03-28 23:30
>>12
god youre stupid dont even post again until you take an operating systems course
>>11 I prefer having no swap.
Enjoy not being able to suspend/restore.
Everything has already been answered in >>3; please exit the thread peacefully.
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Anonymous2009-03-29 1:16
>>3
Wait. Isn't having a /boot partition a good idea?
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Anonymous2009-03-29 2:07
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Running out of RAM isn't the only reason you're swap will get used. The more swap, the more likely you're system is to use it errantly. Google it, if your anything but a troll.
tl;dr:Your a moron.