Enough space for updates?

[stinkoman]

i have 25 gigs of linux space and 5 gigs of swap... this is a good size right? (reading person above saying 15-20 gigs)

[oz]

Yes, 25 GB is plenty of space for the needs of most Linux users.

The 5 GB of swap seems a bit heavy, though. Are you sure you are correct about that number? I only keep a 512 MB swap partition on my machine and it never gets touched, meaning that I could essentially do away with it.

[stinkoman]

yeha im sure when i did cfdisk i put in 5000 mb and i did that much because i didnt want unpartitioned space.. that would be useless!

[oz]

yeha im sure when i did cfdisk i put in 5000 mb and i did that much because i didnt want unpartitioned space.. that would be useless!

If you should decide you want to shrink/expand any partitions, you can do it easily enough with the PartedMagic LiveCD. It's a clone of Partition Magic for Windows so it's very easy to use, and it's a small download and quick burn to CD.

Enjoy your new Slackware box...

[Jonathan183]

If you should decide you want to shrink/expand any partitions, you can do it easily enough with the PartedMagic LiveCD. It's a clone of Partition Magic for Windows so it's very easy to use, and it's a small download and quick burn to CD.

Enjoy your new Slackware box...

I can recommend the PartedMagic CD ... I use it quite a bit ... the windows version has let me down badly at least twice !

[oz]

I use it quite a bit ... the windows version has let me down badly at least twice !

Yeah, I keep that and a copy of SuperGRUB on hand at all times. Come to think of it, I have a collection of about 30 various emergency/recovery type utilities that I keep on hand.

[stinkoman]

could you post that list? and if any are specifically hard to find a link? emergency stuff is always good to have!

[oz]

There's already a pretty good listing of them right here:

The LiveCD List

This is just the Rescue type utilities/distros. You can find more good ones under the System Admin and Diagnostics headings.