On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 18:34 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Hello, > > This is a desktop system that I'm planning the partitioning scheme for. > > OK. I hadn't thought about software suspend. So 1.5 GB swap it is! Then you might be interested to read it up on the article on the myoss magazine -> http://mag.my-opensource.org
> I had > initially chosen 256MB because, not even the full 768 MB of RAM was used > when running KDE 3.4, a movie in Kaffein and "update world" in the > background! 0 MB of swap was used. Back then I had 1.2GB of swap. Do you use evolution? I have 512MB and maybe it's my usage pattern my huge # of emails in evolution. I touch the swap. > Also, I don't think I'll be installing any binary packages. So, how much > do I give for /opt? Or rather, how much space would Java take up? > my /opt is 1.2GB Acrobat7 RealPlayer blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01 cxoffice firefox rar vmware OpenOffice.org bin blackdown-jre-1.4.2.01 doom3-demo netscape share is what I have -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 21:57:40 up 12:38, 6 users, load average: 0.40, 0.53, 0.68 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
