Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 03/02/2014 12:50, Chen Wei a écrit : On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp. +1 for t

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 23:48, Chen Wei wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:03:19PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> As long as the swap file is not sparse. >> > > Tried *fallocate* to create swapfile then swapon report error, something > like: > > swapon: /path2swapfile : swapon failed: Invalid argument > fa

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Chen Wei
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:03:19PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > As long as the swap file is not sparse. > Tried *fallocate* to create swapfile then swapon report error, something like: swapon: /path2swapfile : swapon failed: Invalid argument Only figured it out several cups of tea and google-

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Chen Wei wrote: > Besides, it > is easier to change the size of a swapfile than size of a swap > partition. How about with LVM? -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 22:50, Chen Wei wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >> For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to >> allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup >> in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp. > > +

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Chen Wei
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to > allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup > in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp. +1 for the /tmp example. > My personal rule

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > There is logic for having at least as much swap as you have RAM (in other > words, a multiplier of 1.0) because, when the system panics, it may want to > make a copy of RAM to the swap space for later analysis. Or if the system is a laptop a

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 1, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Lauge Andersen wrote: > Hi. > I intend to install Linux Mint Debian and give up on the Ubuntu based > distros. However when I go through the installer, I get to the point where > I'm supposed to choose the size of the different partitions, but can anyone > tell m

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-01 Thread Doug
On 02/01/2014 03:42 PM, Lauge Andersen wrote: Hi. I intend to install Linux Mint Debian and give up on the Ubuntu based distros. However when I go through the installer, I get to the point where I'm supposed to choose the size of the different partitions, but can anyone tell me how big should