[plug] Partitioning Hard Disk

[Craig Ringer]

> Also, do you have 1GB of RAM in that machine? If not, a general rule of thumb 
> is to size the swap partition according to the amount of RAM you intend 
> having in the machine.

Well, _at_ _least_ the amount of RAM you _plan_ to put in the machine. 
Makes life lots easier later. Current linux kernels are happy with swap 
< RAM but at various stages in the past (early 2.4 anybody?) this has 
not been the case. Anyway, its hard to have too much swap (especially if 
you use a tmpfs /tmp and such, like I do).

A gigabyte is probably overkill for a desktop system - but I do like to 
have at least a gig of swap on my servers, and have used it up entirely 
several times. Then again you can always create temporary swap _files_ 
on normal partitions if you're going to do something awful to your 
system (in my case, run a complex montage(1) command from ImageMagick on 
500mb of TIFFs).

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