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Re: [FAQ] Re: Partitioning....



Will Lowe hat gesagt: // Will Lowe wrote:

> > I am about to install hamm.  I have dedicated 2.6gigs to it.  I have
> > seen several FAQs and HowTo's on the subject of partitions sizes,
> > unfortunately they all say something different.  What I want to know is
> > what is the best way to partition the 2.6 gigs?  
> 
> Well,  give yourself at least twice as much swap space as physical memory
> (for 64 megs of ram,  go for 128 megs of swap).  Swap should be a seperate
> partition.

AFAIK it is not nessecary to have twice as much swap space as RAM. I have 64 M
Ram but only 32 M swap and everything works fine - even compiling The Gimp...

Isn't this "twice as much swap"-rule a leftover from old commercial unix days?
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