Re: [SLUG] nOOb getting started questions

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sat Feb 14 2004 - 03:40:46 EST


On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:09:21PM -0500, Red Wolfman wrote:

> I have MEPIS, what type of partitions do I need. Swap of ? size (I'm running
> 1GIG MB) ant ext2 for remainder of 30 MB? since I have Patition Magic 7.0
> can I set up the partitions that way?
>

Generally, swap is 2x your memory size or more. The rest can just be
ext2. If you're dealing with one physical drive (that is, Windows is on
another physical drive), you can just let Mepis govern the partitions on
your Linux drive. Otherwise, as above.

Paul
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