Lynux machine only

Jason unleet at qwest.net
Wed Oct 24 08:23:16 EDT 2001


Oh yeah, oops, I need sleep, I'm getting my powers of two wrong :-)

On Wednesday October 24, 2001 05:42 am, you wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jason wrote:
> > with 10 GB, I'd just make all but the last 255MB one big ext2 partition
> > (newer versions of lilo get around the 1024 cylinder limit, btw) with the
> > last bit at the end set aside for swap.
>
> This will waste 128 MB of space. Unless things have changed, the largest
> usable size for a single swap partition is 128 MB. I would recomend
> keeping a seperate /home partition even if not serving others. I like to
> keep my stuff that I will keep seperate. IF I was making a server for
> others use, I would also keep sepearte /var and /tmp partitions arround.
>
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
>
> "When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at
> a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
> 	- President George Bush
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup




More information about the Speakup mailing list