partitioning hd

[Steve Holmes]

If it were me, I would go with a single linux partition and a single
partitition for swap and let the distribution's setup procedures guide
you along the path of setting up your basic file systems.  With that
much memory, I wouldn't think you would need any more than 512 meg of
swap but that's just my own view.  a whole gig for swap seems awful
high to me.

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:51:53AM -0500, Jason Symes wrote:
> Well, I only want to allow 1 user on at a time (for now this is primarily a
> desktop system). I've got about 15gb free on my hd for redhat, a 1ghz
> processor, 512mb ram. Being that I'm a newcomer to linux, I don't want this
> to be too complex, though I wanna have some flexability. What would you
> recommend in my case?
> Thanks.
> 
> At 07:38 PM 9/11/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >That also depends on how many users/ttys you want to have running at any 
> >one time, how big your hard drive is, how fast your processors and so 
> >on.  On the box I am running I have dual 450MHZ processors, 1G of RAM and a 
> >swap file of 1.5G, and I am the only one using it.  What do I use it 
> >for?  Telnet to other hosts and run admin tools on them...
> >
> >--David
> 
> Jason Symes
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