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[James Sumners]

Umm, I have gone completely WITHOUT a swap partition before and been
just fine. Generally, you want at least as much swap space as you have
RAM; but it is recommend to use twice as much swap as RAM. I used to
say 128MB is enough (once you have exceeded that amount in RAM), but
that was when hard drive space was a premium for me. Now, I use at
least as much swap as RAM if not twice that much.

I think you might be confusing a swap partition with /tmp. Yes,
Mozilla/Firefox downloads everything to /tmp before moving it to the
location you want to save it to. At least, it used to. Now it uses a
.part file in the specified location. /swap does not exist. swap is a
literal partition and is not something you can browse as part of your
filesystem.

On 5/16/06, Sean Kilpatrick <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 May 2006 18:36, James Sumners wrote:
> | If you don't care about the data on the hard drive, I recommend
> | letting the Xandros installer suggest a partition scheme. It will
> | either recommend a single swap partition and an all encompassing
> | partition or a swap partition, a root partition, and a home directory
> | partition. The second option is nice if you intend to move on to
> | another distribution some day and don't want to have to move all of
> | your personal files around.
>
> On my FC installs I have made the mistake of creating at install time
> a /swap partition that is 512 mgb.  That is not big enough!  Apparently
> Mozilla downloads anything and everything first to the /swap partition
> and _then_ moves it to where-ever you thought the file was being stored.
> So downloads of CD images fail.  Took me the longest time to figure out
> what was going on. I would suggest making the /swap partition large
> enough to handle any file that would fill up a DVD.
>
> Sean
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