[vox-tech] Three Install Questions

[Karsten M. Self]

on Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:58:01AM -0800, Rick Moen (rick at linuxmafia.com) wrote:
> Quoting Peter Jay Salzman (p at dirac.org):
> 
> > Wilson, it's silly to make partitions for future swap just because you plan
> > on adding RAM to the system.  Don't do it.
> 
> Actually, what I tend to do is leave some completely unallocated space on
> each physical hard drive.  That way, if I later decide that I goofed on 
> filesystem sizes, or need some more swap, or otherwise need to reshuffle 
> disk contents, doing so is less messy because I have some space to work
> with.

Rumor is you'll leave it there for years, and be pleasently surprised on
(re)discovering it ;-)


Peace.

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