Rob
> In theory unless something goes completely wrong you should be able to > upgrade online as each new release is made available but I'd say a > separate home partition is a good thing. Yes, I like the principle > Having a separate home partition also means > that you could format your root partition as ext4 for extra performance > and keep your home partition as ext3 if you wished. Or even NTFS I assume to make it easy for a dual boot Windows > I generally allocate about 20 to 40GB for root depending on the size of > the drive. On my desktop I used to use 40GB (it was a 750GB drive) and > on my laptop with a 250GB drive I tend to allocate 20GB for root (mainly > because I also have Vista installed on it which I give about 60GB) but > really I think 15GB would probably be plenty. Thanks, useful to know. > As far as the swap partition goes (you'd have to create this manually > too if you do a manual partitioning), if you want to use Hibernate then > you'd need to allocate a partition at least (if not slightly larger to > be safe) to match the size of your system memory. So for instance if > you have 2GB on your PC, allocate at least 2GB swap (or maybe something > like 2.2GB). I found when I got to 4GB though that it was easier just > to shut the machine down and boot it up as it was quicker than > hibernate. Now on my laptop with 4GB memory I have about a 600MB swap > partition. Thanks again, these sorts of decsions are always difficult to meake without some experience. Graham -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
