From: user@example.net   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > Darin McBride wrote:   
      
      
   > (swap at 8GB, /boot as   
   >> 40MB [complete overkill], and / as the rest), and /home on the second   
   >> disk.   
   > A swap partition the size of 8 GB would indeed be overkill, as the maximum   
   > usable size for a single swap partition on /x86/ is about 2 GB.  It is   
   > however possible to use multiple swap partitions that size, but to make any   
   > of them larger than 2 GB would be a waste of diskspace. ;-)   
      
   I still use the old rule of swap = 2.5*Ram, at work it has been a life saver,   
   as the desktop there has a quite limited amount of ram.   
      
      
   > As for */boot,* I typically allocate about 75 to 100 MB for it, and I have   
   > it mounted read-only during normal system operation,   
      
   I don't mount /boot at all, during normal operation there ain't any use of it   
   at all.   
      
      
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