[Fwd: Re: Disk space for FC6]

[edwardspl at ita.org.mo]

Anne Wilson wrote:

>On Monday 01 January 2007 13:25, edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:
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>>Anne Wilson wrote:
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>>>On Monday 01 January 2007 13:09, edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:
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>>>>Anne Wilson wrote:
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>>>>>On Monday 01 January 2007 11:14, edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:
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>>>>>>Matt C wrote:
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>>>>>>>>So, I think 10GB Disk space for install all packages is ok ?
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>>>>>>>10GB is good for the root partition.  Depending on what you're using
>>>>>>>the machine for, you might also want 20GB for /home.
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>>>>>>Sorry, what useful for root partition ?
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>>>>>Edward, mine is a very average install - nowhere near everything.  'df
>>>>>-h' shows
>>>>>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>>>/dev/hdb1              12G  4.7G  6.7G  42% /
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>>>>>I think you are going to need more space than you originally thought if
>>>>>you want such a lot installed.
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>>>>>Anne
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>>>>All of the packages around 4.xGB size ?
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>>>Yes, at this moment, but that doesn't show any indication of /temp usage,
>>>which can be quite high from time to time.
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>>>>BTW, how about of your swap partition ?
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>>>1GB.  I had only 512MB on FC4 and it never caused me any problems.  It was
>>>rarely used.
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>>1GB swap size for 512MB actual mem ?
>>So, your formula is swap = actual mem * 2 ( 2x) , right ?
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>Yes.  It used to be thought that you should always have 2x actual memory, but 
>that was in the days when memory was small.  It's said that nowadays you 
>never need more than 512MB unless you have some activity that uses a large 
>amount of memory over noticeable amounts of time.  Others on the list will 
>tell you which specific activities could cause that situation.  With big 
>drives it just seems easier to give a whole GB rather than split it.
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>Anne
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So, is there a tool for changing the size of swap partition if more
application program need to be running ?
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