Comments on: Multi-booting Windows and Linux using GRUB http://www.cwatson.org/2009/08/07/multi-booting-windows-and-linux-using-grub/ My personal website, gallery and blog. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Craig http://www.cwatson.org/2009/08/07/multi-booting-windows-and-linux-using-grub/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Craig Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:31:04 +0000 http://www.cwatson.org/blog/?p=52#comment-463 I was aiming this at desktop users, so virtualisation would be a pretty advanced topic - VirtualBox is definitely a desktop-user-accessible tool, but the aim of this post was just to expand on the previous one - virtualisation is next in line :) Re: the swap, I don't think any Linux distro has a manageable swap partition. Disk space is pretty cheap these days (1TB drives can be had for under £70) so 2GB of swap really shouldn't be too expensive to set aside in terms of resources. I was aiming this at desktop users, so virtualisation would be a pretty advanced topic – VirtualBox is definitely a desktop-user-accessible tool, but the aim of this post was just to expand on the previous one – virtualisation is next in line :)

Re: the swap, I don’t think any Linux distro has a manageable swap partition. Disk space is pretty cheap these days (1TB drives can be had for under £70) so 2GB of swap really shouldn’t be too expensive to set aside in terms of resources.

]]> By: Ben Lavery http://www.cwatson.org/2009/08/07/multi-booting-windows-and-linux-using-grub/comment-page-1/#comment-464 Ben Lavery Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:35:17 +0000 http://www.cwatson.org/blog/?p=52#comment-464 Partitioning!? Surely with the duel-core chips virtualisation is the key to best utilising resources? :P Also, I quick comment about your advice on SWAP. The "rule of thumb" you refer to doesn't really hold water anymore. With 2GB+ of memory you should consider what it is you'll be doing and tailor SWAP to your needs. Having said that, if you choose to use OpenSolaris, it'll look after your SWAP for you, though I would guess Linux comes with this as an option? Partitioning!? Surely with the duel-core chips virtualisation is the key to best utilising resources? :P

Also, I quick comment about your advice on SWAP. The “rule of thumb” you refer to doesn’t really hold water anymore. With 2GB+ of memory you should consider what it is you’ll be doing and tailor SWAP to your needs. Having said that, if you choose to use OpenSolaris, it’ll look after your SWAP for you, though I would guess Linux comes with this as an option?

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