[ale] Partition Recommendation for Server

[Kenneth W Cochran]

>Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:49:34 -0500
>From: Bob <bob at cavu.com>
>To: ale at ale.org, jstephenson at gw.total-web.net
>Subject: Re: [ale] Partition Recommendation for Server
>
>> I have a 30GB IDE drive and have found few recommendations on how to 
>> optimally partition this drive for a custom server installation (file & 
>> print server, web server, sql server, mail server). Could someone recommend 
>> a scheme with sizes and mount points for me?

[...deletia...]

>4. Create multiple partitions under this extended partition.  Make the first
>   partition your swap partition.  A rule of thumb is make it twice the
>   size of your actual RAM.  (I'm pretty sure you can have swap space in
>   an extented partion but I've not tried it.)

Works fine; I've run swap in an extended partition for years...
(various Slackware versions...)

-kc
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