Off Topic: Partitioning (was: Re: [olug] Upgrade HD ?)

[Nick Walter]

Actually, sometimes it can be necessary to have swap greater than 1 gig
:)

I would agree in principle that any extended periods of usage of swap
above 1 gig are a good sign a RAM upgrade is needed, but sometimes a
special case scenario comes up and then you want big swap so the system
doesn't crash.  For example Oracle installs use a ton of memory for
reasons I've never figured out.  I've had a system with 512MB Ram and
1.1 G swap die on me during Oracle install with an "out of swap"
message.  The solution was to add another 400MB of swap.  I find that a
big swap partition is a nice safety cushion for special-case scenarios. 

Nick Walter

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 12:10, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> swap doesnt need to be more than 1gig, (if you are using that much, add
> memory)
> 
> and I'd either add an /opt or /usr/local  for additional applications that
> you dont want to re-install in the event of a distro switch......
> 
> Also, you need a /tmp that is large enough..... Printing apps build image
> files in /tmp i.e. glabels, that can be hundreds of megs. Some browsers
> download to /tmp first, then copy to the final location, etc....
> 
> if I was giving a recommendation for a disk 80+gig
> /boot       100M      ext3
> /             2G      ext3
> swap          1G      swap
> /dev/hda4             LVM
> --
> /var                  lvm   500meg to start
> /usr                  lvm   6gig   to start
> /usr/local            lvm   500meg to start
> /home                 lvm   500meg to start
> /opt                  lvm   500meg to start
> /tmp (if / is smaller)lvm   1gig   to start
> --
> 
> For smaller drives/newer users
> /boot 100M
> swap   1gig
> /     10gig
> /opt or /usr/local whatevers leftover
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > I usually go with the following separate partitions on a production
> > system.
> > /boot 100 MB
> > swap  2.5 times size of RAM with max size of 2 GB
> > /     256 MB or greater
> > /var  256 MB or greater
> > /usr  6 GB or greater
> > /home remainder of drive
> >
>