gary turner:
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> Usage will will be primarily web development using multiple browsers,
> Emacs, GIMP, Inkscape and ImageMagick. I also plan to run Vista Home
> Premium in a VM (probably VirtualBox). I suspect that large swap and
> temp partitions will be helpful, as I tend to leave my apps up and
> running.
With 4GB RAM you probably don't need much swap. If your machine
starts swapping notoriously, things will get ridiculously slow anyway.
I have a machine with 4GB RAM myself and I never managed to use all of
it. I am not running VMs, though.
> All the HOWTOs, etc. that I've found talk about 2-10GB HDs, which were
> helpful in 2000 when I first installed Debian. I find them less so when
> looking at so much more space.
Use 10-20GB for the regular system, 1-2GB for swap and mount the rest on
/srv with subdirectories for VMs, mirrors etc. A separate /home might be
a good idea as well.
I have /srv/files, /srv/svn, /srv/www, /srv/pgsql etc. And I put /tmp on
a tmpfs.
J.
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