Aragorn wrote:
> Darin McBride wrote:


> (swap at 8GB, /boot as
>> 40MB [complete overkill], and / as the rest), and /home on the second
>> disk.
> A swap partition the size of 8 GB would indeed be overkill, as the maximum
> usable size for a single swap partition on /x86/ is about 2 GB. It is
> however possible to use multiple swap partitions that size, but to make any
> of them larger than 2 GB would be a waste of diskspace. ;-)

I still use the old rule of swap = 2.5*Ram, at work it has been a life saver,
as the desktop there has a quite limited amount of ram.


> As for */boot,* I typically allocate about 75 to 100 MB for it, and I have
> it mounted read-only during normal system operation,

I don't mount /boot at all, during normal operation there ain't any use of it
at all.


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//Aho