Xubuntu pre-install questions
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Apr 23 13:20:25 UTC 2007
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 09:29:31PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> My main machine is an AMD running Gentoo. My 1999 Dell 450mhz, PIII,
> with 128 megs of ram isn't being used for much now, so I figure I'll
> give Xubuntu a test drive. The harddrive is 41 gigs. I intend to wipe
> it and install fresh. My current "three partitions" strategy is...
>
> - 10 gigs for /
> - a swap partition
> - the rest is /home. Any odds-and-ends that don't belong to a specific
> account go into /home/misc
>
> My questions are...
> 1) What is the recommended size for /, assuming I install "the works"?
10GB sounds pretty reasonable.
> 2) What is the recommended size for the swap partition?
Depends what you do. I would probably do 256MB if it was my machine
just to give it a bit of working room.
> 3) What is the recommended filesystem? (ext3fs, reiserfs, whatever)
ext3
> Any helpful pre-install hints would be appreciated.
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