Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 03/02/2014 12:50, Chen Wei a écrit : On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp. +1 for t

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 23:48, Chen Wei wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:03:19PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> As long as the swap file is not sparse. >> > > Tried *fallocate* to create swapfile then swapon report error, something > like: > > swapon: /path2swapfile : swapon failed: Invalid argument > fa

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Chen Wei
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:03:19PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > As long as the swap file is not sparse. > Tried *fallocate* to create swapfile then swapon report error, something like: swapon: /path2swapfile : swapon failed: Invalid argument Only figured it out several cups of tea and google-

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Chen Wei wrote: > Besides, it > is easier to change the size of a swapfile than size of a swap > partition. How about with LVM? -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 22:50, Chen Wei wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >> For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to >> allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup >> in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp. > > +

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Chen Wei
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to > allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup > in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp. +1 for the /tmp example. > My personal rule

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > There is logic for having at least as much swap as you have RAM (in other > words, a multiplier of 1.0) because, when the system panics, it may want to > make a copy of RAM to the swap space for later analysis. Or if the system is a laptop a

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 1, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Lauge Andersen wrote: > Hi. > I intend to install Linux Mint Debian and give up on the Ubuntu based > distros. However when I go through the installer, I get to the point where > I'm supposed to choose the size of the different partitions, but can anyone > tell m

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-01 Thread Doug
On 02/01/2014 03:42 PM, Lauge Andersen wrote: Hi. I intend to install Linux Mint Debian and give up on the Ubuntu based distros. However when I go through the installer, I get to the point where I'm supposed to choose the size of the different partitions, but can anyone tell me how big should

Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-01 Thread Lauge Andersen
Hi. I intend to install Linux Mint Debian and give up on the Ubuntu based distros. However when I go through the installer, I get to the point where I'm supposed to choose the size of the different partitions, but can anyone tell me how big should the swap partition be? I've read online that