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Re: [LUG] Gparted questions

 
My rule of thumb for swap: put one swap partition, sized approximately the same as installed RAM, on each physical drive directly (IDE, PCI, SCSI, USB, Firewire) attached to the host. This is based on nothing but ignorance and superstition and guesswork and half-remembered hearsay. YMMV


On 18 October 2013 15:28, Eion MacDonald <eionmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"From: Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, 18 October 2013, 15:02
Subject: Re: [LUG] Gparted questions
 
Thanks. Just one more question and that is about swap space. Although it is not used so much nowadays when most people have plenty of RAM, is one area of swap all that is required? That is, if I have two or more distros installed using dual boot, is there any need for each one to have some swap?"


A minor point, I usually always make a SWAP partition at end of hard disc and then set for each distro at least one root and sometimes a root and a home (with different names example  homeUb homeSuse) two partitions  this seems to work  so easy to change disto by new install to partition with old root / after reformating it to chosen file system.

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