Re: How to partition 300GB hard drive?

On Sep 13, 4:51 am, Benjamin Gawert <bgaw...@xxxxxx> wrote:

Unless you have specific requirements, I'd do at least a 4GB swap
partition and make the rest a single / partition (no separate /export/home).

Benjamin


Question, what would be the ideal amount of swap given 4GB of RAM?

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