From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from imr-db01.mx.aol.com (imr-db01.mx.aol.com [205.188.91.95]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4661C1A361 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:39:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mtaout-ma02.r1000.mx.aol.com (mtaout-ma02.r1000.mx.aol.com [172.29.41.2]) by imr-db01.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o3Q8cvrX026587 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:38:57 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.64] (mwhapples.plus.com [80.229.137.216]) by mtaout-ma02.r1000.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPA id C45C5E000099 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:38:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4BD5511F.4000100@aim.com> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:38:55 +0100 From: Michael Whapples User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100425 Shredder/3.0.5pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Re: Michael's ArchLinux Installation References: <4BD4B845.7030503@aim.com> <9B0AF1D2AF334A90B33D0C6E89A5FEF7@Jepelsy.local> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable x-aol-global-disposition: G X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:2:453674944:93952408 X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0 x-aol-sid: 3039ac1d29024bd55120692b X-AOL-IP: 80.229.137.216 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:39:32 -0000 I will be honest and say I don't tend to use swap partitions (I have 2GB = of ram and the hard disk is a bit limited on space), so may be that's=20 why I get this question. I understand that one can use a swapfile for swap space instead of a=20 swap partition. Now I can think of an advantage to a swapfile, its=20 fairly easy to adjust your swap space, but is there advantages to having = a swap partition? Michael Whapples On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, trev.saunders@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > ok, drives can have up two 4 primary partitions, of which 1 can be an e= xtended partition. An extended partition can have some reasonably large = (16 or 64) logical partitions, I don't really remember. Any way, so you = have primary partitons and logical, the primary partitions are numbered 1= -4 and the logical ones start at 5. How you partition a given disk comes= down to preference and use. Another thing worth pointing out here is th= at above the primary and logical partitions bios can support linux can ha= ve what is called logical volumes, this is a bit more complicated, so you= might decide not to bother, but it gives you some really nice features l= ike dynamically resizeable sections of disk. You will certainly want 1 p= artition for windows, and atleast 1 for linux I'd suggest 2 1 for the = root file system with the system files, and second /home for your persona= l stuff. You'll probably also want a partition for swap, since you only = have 256Mb of ram, if this were a server yo > u might be able to get away without swap, but for a personal machine = I would suggest having a fair bit of swap. Since this gets you to 4 part= itions, it would probably make ense to put some on a extended paritition.= > > HTH > Trev > > =20