From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net ([207.108.112.1]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15wN42-0002Q7-00 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 08:23:18 -0400 Received: (qmail 49324 invoked by uid 50); 24 Oct 2001 12:23:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 49308 invoked by uid 0); 24 Oct 2001 12:23:18 -0000 Received: from tcsndslgw4poola102.tcsn.uswest.net (HELO lightstar) (63.227.85.102) by tcsnpop1.tcsn.uswest.net with SMTP; 24 Oct 2001 12:23:18 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jason To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Lynux machine only Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 05:23:16 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01102405231604.09339@lightstar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Oh yeah, oops, I need sleep, I'm getting my powers of two wrong :-) On Wednesday October 24, 2001 05:42 am, you wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jason wrote: > > with 10 GB, I'd just make all but the last 255MB one big ext2 partition > > (newer versions of lilo get around the 1024 cylinder limit, btw) with the > > last bit at the end set aside for swap. > > This will waste 128 MB of space. Unless things have changed, the largest > usable size for a single swap partition is 128 MB. I would recomend > keeping a seperate /home partition even if not serving others. I like to > keep my stuff that I will keep seperate. IF I was making a server for > others use, I would also keep sepearte /var and /tmp partitions arround. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net > > "When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at > a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive." > - President George Bush > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup