Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Installation

 

On 6/12/2013 1:46 AM, loyal_barber wrote:
>
> A note however: If you have 4 GB or less of memory
> you will want to create 1 to several swap partitions of approximately
> 2 GB each up to 1.5 times your amount of RAM. For example, if you
> had 4 GB RAM, you would have 5 total partitions:
> 1. Win7
> 2. Swap 2GB
> 3. Swap 2GB
> 4. Swap 2GB
> 5. Linux root (/) partition of the size of your free space - 6 GB.
>

One advantage that I have read about Linux is that it is much
easier on resources than Windows; it can be used to bring new life to
older machines. Therefore, I am curious as to why 4 GB of RAM is
insufficient to run Linux properly, and that several dedicated
partitions for swap areas are required. Can't Linux just use a file on
disk for swapping of necessary?

Bart

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