Re: Automatic allocation of swap

2004-08-02 Thread John Summerfield
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:21:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:04:50PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: By spreading data over multiple partitions with great gobs of free space between small (after install) amounts of

OT: Automatic allocation of swap

2004-08-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:36:31AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Really, Linux or Windows, it is bad idea to fill actively used disk up > to 98%. (For your case / partition. /boot may be OK since it is > practically read-only.) For Linux, 90-95%, for windows 60-70% is my > common sense usage. Oo

Re: Automatic allocation of swap

2004-08-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:21:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:04:50PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > By spreading data over multiple partitions with great gobs of free space > between small (after install) amounts of data, you're forcing lon

Re: Automatic allocation of swap

2004-08-01 Thread John Summerfield
Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:04:50PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: I have just installed another system, and took the time to try to familiarise myself with the partitioning tool. I was running a 2.6 kernel, and the install kernel's date is Jul 29 06:24. The install target

Re: Automatic allocation of swap

2004-08-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:04:50PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > I have just installed another system, and took the time to try to > familiarise myself with the partitioning tool. > > I was running a 2.6 kernel, and the install kernel's date is Jul 29 06:24. > > The install target was

Automatic allocation of swap

2004-08-01 Thread John Summerfield
I have just installed another system, and took the time to try to familiarise myself with the partitioning tool. I was running a 2.6 kernel, and the install kernel's date is Jul 29 06:24. The install target was a Pentium II, 350 Mhz, 64 Mb RAM and 3.2 Gbytes of disk. It seemed to me that the se