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Old habits die hard. I don't think I've ever done the default partitioning scheme offered by an installer--I always create separate partitions for / and /boot (and on both of my main systems now, the /usr hierarchy is on another drive, as is /home, but that's because I've got more disk than everyone else. )su root said:Now that I look back at it, the cause of this entire thread is an error message... I remember reading about that issue on the release notes known issues:
As per your questions: I've still seen the cylinder boundary issue persist in newer machines, any systems I build, I always build boot(ext2, 100M), swap (1GB), and root(reiser). If it's a server, I'll put more partitions in.
5GB of swap is overkill unless you have a specific use for it. It can't be used for both Windows swap and Linux swap at the same time. The rule of thumb is 2x how much ram you have in the system, but honestly, if you ever end up using 3x your RAM size, you are doing something wrong.
So if I have 4GB of physical RAM, I should have 8GB swap?