Swap partitions.
Do they still tell you to make those things twice the size of your RAM? I'm not so keen on the idea of taking 2 of my 60 gigs out of the rotation for use only when a gig of RAM isn't enough.
posted by SomeJerk at 12:42 PM
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If you want to be able to software suspend, you'll need more swap than ram, and 2x is still a reasonable number to shoot for.
Hrmph. Well I guess at least the new laptop has twice the hard drive space of the last one, so it's not like I'll be stepping backwards on disk space.
For software suspend you'll need enough space for contents of RAM + contents in swap, assuming no compression. So if you don't use a swap partition, you only need to reserve enough disk space for RAM (max). I say take it like a man and go with no swap. You can always add it later if you need it. Or just clear out your swap space before you suspend.
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