[QCLUG] Partitioning Hard Drive

[Arron Lorenz]

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Rule of thumb for swap on most machines used to be *twice as much swap as
you have ram*.
IE: 2gb ram = 4gb swap

*https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq*


Am I still correct in that?


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Nick Miller <nickmiller92@gmail.com> wrote:

> Robert Jones wrote:
> > I've been playing with Kubuntu 8.04 Beta on my laptop and tried
> > VirtualBox and some other stuff hoping I could get rid of Vista. I
> > don't like VirtualBox so will just have to do a dual boot after all.
> > Oh, Well. Maybe later.  I still have a couple of things to look at to
> > see if they work with my GPS or not but my hopes aren't high. Anyway,
> > I will be setting the laptop back up with 7.10 (or waiting for 8.04 in
> > about a month) and need some advice. After my Window Vista is shrunk
> > as far as I can take it I have 65 GB to put Kubuntu in. When I set it
> > up I want to have the "/", "/home" and or course the "swap" on
> > separate "drives".  How much of the 65 GB should I assign to the
> > "swap" and "/"?  I don't want to crowd them but I don't want to wast
> > space either. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Have A Great Day
> > Bob Jones
> >
>
> The swap partition usually only needs around 250mb (if that), from what
> I understand. Heck, I've gotten away with no swap partition, but it's
> probably not a good idea from a performance standpoint.
>
> - Nick
>
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