Re: Starting from scratch

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Mr. N. Marsall wrote:

/dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 swap
31.87 Gig 30.92 Gig 11.74 Gig

That's way too much swap space.

An old rule of thumb was that the swap size should be the double of the
RAM. That's probably too much these days, but I certainly wouldn't exceed
the size it suggests.

On the other hand, too much swap doesn't hurt; it's just a waste of disk
space.

--
Yves Bellefeuille
<yan@xxxxxxxx>

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