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?
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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
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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.