Lol, With a mechanical drive i would give it a token bit of swap, but with an SSD i am more interested in reducing write cycles. On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > no swap? Come on..... you ONLY have 16 GB of RAM. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> My normal partition setup is usually /boot of about 1-2GB (excessive but >> i have run out of boot space before and it was ugly) and / and for >> mechanical HDD's 2-6gb swap depending on use/ram availability, for my >> recent install i have no swap and 16gb ram and running linux on an ssd. >> >> space used in home i would take a peek at how much "stuf" you have >> stashed there. and plan accordingly, but 20GB overall is usually enough for >> Linux depending on where you install/put things. >> >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Stephen M wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I need to reinstall a new OS on my laptop because Mint 17.1 keeps having >>> trouble downloading packages sometimes. Mostly it says that 'a template >>> for "rebecca" could not be found.' So the release is just having growing >>> pains. >>> >>> Onto my question though, I want to install something else but want to >>> know about partitioning my drive. I have not gotten into LVMs so I need to >>> read up on those before trying. I know that it depends but I would like >>> some options. I have a 250 GB drive, I am wanting to make a separate /, >>> home, var, tmp, and usr directories. I am looking for a possible percentage >>> of whats best works for a home computer more or less. >>> >>> If someone doesn't mind giving me an insight that would be helpful. >>> Usually I have done 5-10GB for / and 2GB for swap and the rest for home. I >>> want to see what others have tried in the past that has worked for them. >>> >>> Thank you in advance. >>> >>> -- >>> Stephen Melheim >>> 602-400-7707 >>> SMelheim85@gmail.com >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen