[sf-lug] separate partition for /home

[jim]

    golly! they've really improved their docs. 
    it's still $X says $Y, but seems credible, and 
nice for those of us who just want to follow some 
rules blindly (tho' i'm with akkana in the main-- 
best to know what one's doing, assuming there are 
enough hours in one's day). 



On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 13:42 -0400, Tyler Trafford wrote:
> Redhat has changed the recommendations, since I last looked-
> 
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/96/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html
> 
> -Tyler
> 
> jim wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >     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"
> > 
> > 
>