Re: New first time install

From: Mr. 1nOnly (mr_1nonlyNO_SPAM_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/05/03 

Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:00:59 -0500

Hi Jim, thanks for the reply.

"Jim Trice" <jimtrice@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
news:bo9lrc$1bhq17$1@ID-157120.news.uni-berlin.de...
<snip>
>
> Sounds like a reasonable idea. Linux should be able to read your NTFS
> partitions without any trouble. Writing to them may be a different
> question. And Windows has no hope reading or writing to Linux file
> systems. There is third party software to let Win read/write ext 2/ext 3
> formats, but reputedly it can destroy all information on a file system if
> it is writing when Windows hangs. I'd set up a small amount of the second
> drive as FAT 32, to transfer files between the two systems. Down side is
> that this can change your drive assignments in Windows, and confuse some
> software.
>
My thought was to have space to store files that I could use on both systems
if I needed to. Stuff like image files and all my MP3's. Is this not a good
idea? Would it be better to set up a FTP server on a spare box sometime in
the future?>

>
> Could cause debate until the cows come home. I'd probably do something
> like:
> /boot small ext2
> /swap 256MB to 1GB swap
> /data 2GB FAT32 (for transfering files)
> extended partition containing
> / approx 8GB reiser or ext3
> /var 2 or 3GB reiser or ext3
> /home everything thats left reiser or ext3
>
>
Thats all I need? sounds so small.

<snip>

> /swap is used for virtual memory management. No matter how much RAM you
> have you will need some of this, as the kernel likes to swap out stuff
that
> hasn't been accessed in a while. I don't know how much RAM you've got, or
> how you use the system, so it's hard to tell how much swap you will need.
> I would use at least 256 MB, and up to twice the physical RAM if I thought
> I was going to hit swap a lot (large data files, lots of simultaneous
> processes, whatever). Older kernels needed swap to be at least twice the
> size of RAM, so you will often see that recommended, but that is no longer
> strictly needed. I'd put swap at the beginning of the drive, just after
> boot

I have 512MB Ram, so 1024MB sould be ok? or should I go ahead and make it
bigger.

<snip>

Thanks again for the help.

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