From 6368603644ba324faf18fb34a9c3fc9be4f4fe89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Bullard Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:38:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: update doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap --- doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap.md b/doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap.md index 3e4e4a7..67b0bec 100644 --- a/doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap.md +++ b/doc/guides/howto-root-home-swap.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: How to have root, home, and swap partitions created during OM Lx installation description: published: true -date: 2020-03-12T02:33:19.904Z +date: 2020-03-12T02:38:00.986Z tags: documentation, howto --- @@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ If you have what you want select Next and when installed your new sys Note that `/boot/efi` is a the top of the list in first place. This is necessary. -> Note that your swap partition is probably never going to be used. Only a small minority of users these days really need a swap partition. Those that do need swap already know who you are and can adapt accordingly. Usually swap would be needed by really old computers with not enough RAM to run Lx 4 to begin with. How much RAM is enough? In my opinion 4 GB. We do have users running Lx 4 with 2 GB. The Release Notes for Lx 4.0 and 4.1 do say 2 GB (min 1.5 GB). And I would go with 2 GB as a minimum myself. Upgrading the amount of memory in a computer, whether it’s a desktop, tower, or laptop, notebook, is both easy and not that expensive these days. So if your computer is short on memory do consider upgrading. -Swap may still be used on computers doing very intense level of mathematical or scientific calculating or maybe really intense graphic applications. +> Note that your swap partition is probably never going to be used. Only a small minority of users these days really need a swap partition. Those that do need swap already know who you are and can adapt accordingly. Usually swap would be needed by really old computers with not enough RAM to run Lx 4 to begin with. How much RAM is enough? In my opinion 4 GB. We do have users running Lx 4 with 2 GB. The Release Notes for Lx 4.0 and 4.1 do say 2 GB and the DCalamares installer requires 2 GB. Upgrading the amount of memory in a computer, whether it’s a desktop, tower, or laptop, notebook, is both easy and not that expensive these days. So if your computer is short on memory do consider upgrading. +Swap also may still be used on computers doing very intense level of mathematical or scientific calculating or maybe really intense graphic applications. But those users will know what they need. {.is-info}