From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FCFID-0007jv-PU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:09:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1NC8x5K030411; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:08:59 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1NC4xLQ015578 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:05:00 GMT Received: (qmail 29792 invoked by uid 0); 23 Feb 2006 12:04:59 -0000 Received: from 157.247.252.14 by www077.gmx.net with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:04:59 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:04:59 +0100 (MET) From: jarry@gmx.net To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated: #787166 Message-ID: <28958.1140696299@www077.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.6 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k1NC8x5b030411 X-Archives-Salt: 2fc2c580-5577-4065-886d-6733e0546283 X-Archives-Hash: 3aca90941b1f5b0e1e40378be54ec09c "joaoemanuel1981" wrote: > Do i not understand why needs swap, if have 1GB of RAM? 1. because if you have 200GB disk, cutting 1 or 2GB for swap does not mat= ter 2. because someone told me some apps want to allocate swap no matter how = ram you have (I think it was someone from hp-ux support, but I'm not sure if this is true for linux) 3. because it is always better to have too much ram/swap then too little 4. because if you do not set up swap, but need it later, it will not be s= o easy to create it, if you partition all disk and leave no space left 5. because it is a good *nix habit! :-) Jarry --=20 Lust, ein paar Euro nebenbei zu verdienen? Ohne Kosten, ohne Risiko! Satte Provisionen f=FCr GMX Partner: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/partner --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list