I found that the best way to partition Linux is to size each
partition according to how you back up your data.  Besides 
creating a small partition (/boot) to allow for the too-many-
cylindars (for lilo) problem, the rest of my hard drives are 
partitioned into 650 mb chunks - so I can back up each partition
onto a separate cd-rom.  This helps me keep track of each
partition, and helps me find out what programs / libs use what
partition.  If I run out of space on one partition, I find the 
biggest directory, and move it to a spare partition (I have 20GB
hard drive space, and have some partitions left over) and mount
the spare partition under the directory that was once on
the full partition.

On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> Rod Roark wrote:
> > (2) Allocate hda3 as a swap partition, about 2 times your physical
> > memory size.
>
> The general guideline is 4x physical memory, but in my experience, its
> usually best to go a little higher than that. That 48meg swapfile I
> had on the 16MB 486 was sort of silly when I upgraded to 64MB of
> physical memory (yeah I know linux adds them unlike many other unixes,
> but it still seems silly)

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