[sf-lug] separate partition for /home

[jim]

    Thanks much! I'm still not clear, sorry: is the 
RH recommendation you mention a guideline for total 
swap or for the size of a single swap partition? 
    My recollection is that RH recommends that any 
one swap partition not exceed 2GB; i always suspect 
my memory, of course. 



On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 11:31 -0400, Tyler Trafford wrote:
> 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.
> 
> FWIW:
> 
> RedHat says that the "swap = 2*Memory" is only for memory<=2GB.
> 
> For memory >2GB they recommend : "Swap = Memory + 2GB"