Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?



On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:48:47AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat,27.Jun.09, 22:57:30, Zachary Uram wrote:
[…]
Also what do you
recommend for swap size (it has 4GB ram) and just have 1 big root
partition with everything on it or split 125GB for root / and 125GB
for /home partitions.
With so much RAM swap only serves as backup. 1-2 GB should be ok.

If the OP is going to use hibernate or suspend to disk then I believe
the consensus is that the swap size should at least be equal to the RAM
size.

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