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A Future Pilot

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Registered: 2008-10-17

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Partition Scheme on 6 Gigs

Awhile back I was given an ANCIENT Dell Latitude. Ancient meaning 90 Megs of RAM (slightly corrupted :-) 433Mhz processor and 6 Gigs of Hard Drive space. I installed archlinux on it before but for some reason I re-formatted the hard drive (I don't remember why). Anyway all I want to use it for is to play dxx-rebirth, I don't even really want a desktop environment, I'll probably just use xterm as my X system.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a good partition scheme for it?

TheBodziO

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From: Dukla, Poland

Registered: 2006-07-28

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Re: Partition Scheme on 6 Gigs

With so little RAM you'll need swap partition hands down. I'd give it about 256 MB. I don't know if you're targeting for some bad-ass security. If you don't then I think that giving rest of the disk for system, home and whatnots will do just fine.

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A Future Pilot

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Re: Partition Scheme on 6 Gigs

OK, how many do I need? would it be OK to have both / and /home on one partition? I'm thinking like

Swap: 256 MB
/var: 1 GB
/: the rest

would that work?

TigTex

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-06-19

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Re: Partition Scheme on 6 Gigs

If i were you.... 512mb swap and the rest is root / (ext4 or something). Nothing more. I think that its the best to do.

ps. lxde should work fine in your pc...:cool:

Last edited by TigTex (2009-05-05 22:24:38)

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A Future Pilot

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Re: Partition Scheme on 6 Gigs

OK Thanks!