-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/24/07 08:10, Martin McCormick wrote: > It appears after reading the fdisk manual, that it is > best to put swap on whats left of the disk after calculating > one's other partition needs. The boot image should end up in the > lowest sector numbers. Do I understand this right? > > I am about to reformat a 20-gig hard disk on a > 5-year-old Dell laptop that used to run Windows XP. You might > say, I am giving it a whole new outlook. > > The present fdisk report for /dev/hda shows a 32-MB > partition 1 and a 19-gig partition 2. I think I will probably > make it 19-gigs for partition 1 and 512 MB for partition2 since > the system has 256 K of RAM. Partition 1 will be Linux and > partition2 will be swap.
I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart desires, whenever you need them. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGzunZS9HxQb37XmcRArXIAJ0fkrmKhLJjc1wKFuBR2603Oi9z9ACePbw5 SpNtuefZSjribJxzUIbo66Y= =6sdQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
