Partition Question

[Michael Havens]

of course.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes, but based on my usage I have no need for swap at all so why create a
> swap and then swappiness settings, when i can just skip it. I don't really
> do dev work, which is where swap can be really good because it will give
> you some buffer in case of runaway processes.
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> did you know you can reduce the tendency of swap usage with something
>> called swappiness? I'm sure I'm explaining it wrong so you will need to
>> research it more. Here are the notes I took regarding it:
>>
>> sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf
>> --add at the bottom of that text file--
>> #
>> # Reduce the swap tendency
>> vm.swappiness = 10
>>
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> no swap? Come on..... you ONLY have 16 GB of RAM.
>>>>
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Stephen Partington <
>>>> cryptworks at gmail.com> 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 <smelheim85 at gmail.com>
>>>>> 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 at gmail.com
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Stephen
>>>>>
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