Rewriting the manual's partitioning/schemes.html: swapping and all that

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm>]

This is deeply obsolete.

The "older machine" example is now at the extreme low end of supported systems.
New x86 machines now regularly have 100GB hard drives, even the cheap ones, and a
gigabyte of memory is quite reasonable for a new home system.

The swap recommendations are likewise out of date.  With more than a gig of memory
on a home system, you do not need or want more than a gig of swap.

Can someone make some update suggestions?  I'd like this to contain suitable
recommendations for people installing on fairly new machines, but I'm not quite sure
what they are.

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Also, on a related topic, I've been thinking that we should install /tmp as 
a tmpfs on machines with a decent amount of memory, which I do happily on all my 
machines.  Stuff stays in memory for fast access, and if not it ends up in swap, 
which might provide some use for that gig of swap you were wasting.  ;-) Any 
arguments against that?  If not, what needs to be done to make this an installer
possibility (write a small installer module perhaps)?

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Nathanael Nerode  <neroden@fastmail.fm>

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