Re: Three questions

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "cs" == Christopher SEKIYA <wileyc@example.com> writes:

    cs> * Root partition should be separate from all other partitions,
    cs> and it should be small.

Ie, I find about 150MB comfortable, at least on a fully-loaded Debian
system.  (Some idjit put the Samba unicode tables in /etc.  that's
just the stupidest thing I know about.)  And multiple kernels means
multiple /lib/modules trees.  glibc is a hawg.

You can skin that down to 50MB with a separate device for /tmp.

Chris?  Chris?  What's that gagging noise?

    cs> * There is no benefit to having a swap partition that is
    cs> larger than physical RAM.  Memory overcommit is a bad thing.

Whassis I hear about Oracle recommending 256MB RAM and requiring
1-1.5GB of VM, then?  :-)

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