What would you recommend for a small desk top work station with a 45GB
HD?
Thanks
Frank
Kevin Counts wrote:
>
> Frank,
>
> I would increase the size of your swap. Although I don't know your
> specific situation, in general I would recommend at least 256 or 384 MB swap
> w/ such
> a big hard drive (it never hurts to have extra swap)
>
> In certain instances you can think of partitions as compartments
> of a ship. If one compartment fills up, the partition keeps the overflow
> from affecting more critical areas.
>
> I would suggest also creating a partition for /var and one for /tmp
> to "water tighten" your host.
>
> If their are any other directory nodes that have a probability to
> fill up, move them off the root partition as well.
>
> Good luck.
>
> --\
>
> Kevin Counts <counts@usf.edu>
> System Administrator
> Systems Group -- Academic Computing
> University of South Florida
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Roberts - SOLT" <sotl155360@earthlink.net>
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 5:22 AM
> Subject: [SLUG] Participations
>
> > Without starting a war what is the list's current thinking on
> > participations.
> >
> > Currently I have this machine divided into 3 participations:
> > Boot participation = Set by default (i.e. I forgot the exact size but
> > it was around 1 MB)
> > Swap = 64 MB
> > Main participation = = 45 GB
> >
> > I am considering changing this to either 4 or 5 participations for my
> > next installation.
> >
> > Added participation would be:
> > /usr = 5GB
> > /home = 40GB
> >
> > Thanks
> > Frank
> >
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