[sf-lug] separate partition for /home

[jim]

    another note re swap: Red Hat docs have a caution 
about swap partition size to the effect that one 
should not bother making a swap partition over 2GB, 
as there is some kind of inefficiency for which 2GB 
is an upper limit of usefulness. if one needs more 
than 2GB of swap, one should make multiple swap 
partitions (and distribute them across the drive 
cylinder space). 


On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 08:13 -0700, jim wrote:
> 10GB for / seems good to me. 
> 
> 2 * RAM seems way too much to me. for the last few 
> years i've used 1GB for swap, no problem. Note that 
> the more RAM one has, the less the likelihood of 
> needing to swap. 
> 
> the rest for /home/ seems good to me. 
> 
>     i'd make as 10GB partition as the first partition, 
> then make the swap partition, then have the /home/ 
> partition last--swap is in the middle. 
> 
>     i'd make all three partitions as primary partitions. 
> 
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> On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 07:53 -0700, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > 
> > I received a donation of a notebook w 4 GB of RAM for our schools
> > project.  I want to install /home in a separate partition.  I will be
> > using Ubuntu 10.10 as the distro.  I have been told that the rule of
> > thumb is as follows:
> > 
> > 
> > 10 gig+ for /
> > 2xRAM for swap
> > Rest for home
> > 
> > 
> > Are there any traps for the unwary that I should know about?  I have
> > never personally done this before, although I have seen it done.  Thx.
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