Hi guys & girls:),
My question is I use /home on my 320GB HD and my SWAP0.0kb ,can I do that?.
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If this is your only hdd, you can’t. I’d pick 2 GB for swap, 30 GB for / (you need that, it’s the c:\ for linux so to say, use the rest for /home if you want.
I have a 320GB Harddrive so how much I need for swap?
The size of your swap has nothing to do with the size of your disk. It has to do with the size of your memory. In earlier times (small memory) one would advise to take about two times the size of your mamory for swap. With todauys big memory that is not the case anymore. When you have !Gn f memory, 1Gb of swap is normaly OK. But on a disk of 320 Gb a swap og 2Gb is not something that takes a lot of diskspave away from your ambitions, does it?
In general, take the adivice of Knurpht: 20 -30Gb for /, 2Gb for swap and the rest for /home.
You don’t have to use a separate partition for /, but it is recommended, as a new OS install will rewrite only this partition, leaving your /home, with all your time-consuming configurations, untouched. I’ve done both ways, and separate is much better. Currently in a desktop with 250GB HD OpenSuse’s 11.0 default partitioning set / in a 20GB partition, and after a year it’s about only 60% full.
If you have a desktop with 4 GB RAM you’ll rarely if ever see swap used, but since you have plenty of disk what’s the problem in allocating a couple GB to it?
Also if you want to suspend to disk (more common in laptops), swap has to exist and be at least the same size of your RAM.