RE: recommended partitioning

[Phil Brutsche <pbrutsch@creighton.edu>]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Hi Jeff,
> 
> I would try a simple approach.  You only "need" two partitions, root and
> swap.  If I remember correctly, swap should be equal to installed memory.
> 32MB RAM means 32MB swap.  Use the rest for the root partition.  I assigned
> root first, then swap as the last partition.

I think I should add that it might be better if swap is at the beginning
of the drive - date tends to get read from the beginning of the drive that
from the end.  That would be a definite plus if you have a limited amount
of memory.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch@creighton.edu

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