On Friday 13 February 2004 04:53 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> > I have a 60gig HD w2k on 29,635.5 MB and 29,008.0 MB Unallocated
> >
> > I would like to use Partition Magic 7.0 to put Linux in the
> > Unallocated area.
> >
> > With 1Gig MB RAM what size swap do I need? One thing said twice the
> > amount of RAM
> > and one said 512k?*
The rule has been twice the RAM. I stick to it but never larger than 1G.
As for partitions that depends too.
I like breaking down things so that I have:
root (1-2G) mostly for /opt
dedicated kernel space (/boot) 100M
nosuid noexec /home -20G, /var 750M and /tmp 250M
dedicated program space (/usr) 200M
seperate noexec-nosuid /usr/share 150M as it's user writable
By having /home on a separate partition you can upgrade your system
without loosing your personal stuff. Only allowing those directories
that contain executables be non-executable and non-suid makes it safer.
I like different sizes which sometimes makes it easier to tell what it
was used for. You can go a step further and make those partitions that
don't change read-only.
On the other hand on the partitions that I create to test distro's I
usually only have a /boot and a /, as it will not see too much action
and I remove them often. (Guess I could drop the /boot all together but
with it I can easily swap it with some other kernels if I want to.)
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