Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > This is the only partitioning scheme which in my opinion fits for
> > users who might go with whatever the default is:
> >
> > / Whole harddisk
> > swap none, but 512M swap file (independent of memory)
>
> I also wouldn't mind having this scheme available, although I think
> the current "simple" scheme (/, /home, /swap) is also useful.
Fine as long as there is some help text which makes the choice
trivially obvious. That seems hard.
> > Swap nowadays only serve to spill pages that haven't been accessed
> > for hours, or to slow down the system enough so you can kill
> > processes gone haywire; therefore, it is not performance critical
> > and a swap file will do just fine and is more flexible WRT
> > resizing.
>
> Not true for many of our target architectures and systems.
Those are used by people who do this stuff manually anyway.
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Falk
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