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Chapter 1 ✦ Installing SUSE 10
Figure 1-12: Creating filesystems
Filesystems are discussed in more detail in Chapter 3.
Start and end cylinders are often new concepts to new Linux users who are used to
data sizes being defined in mega- and gigabytes. YaST enables you to enter the size of
a partition in human readable form, such as MB and GB. The start cylinder, as this is
the first partition on the disk, is 0 (the start of the usable space on the disk), and the
end cylinder is what we need to change. It is usually customary to select a swap size
that is 1.5 times the amount of physical RAM in the system, but this is subject to
much conjecture. A reasonable swap size should be considered based on the work-
load of the machine you will be using, and as most modern PC systems have at least
512MB, it is safe to use the standard 1.5 times physical memory. To specify that you
want the swap partition to be 750MB, enter +750M in the End cylinder entry box. The
+ signifies that you want to add space, the number is the unit of space needed, and
the M specifies that the amount of data is expressed in megabytes. You can also spec-
ify G for gigabytes, which you will be using in the following example of creating a root
partition.
After entering the size of your new swap partition, click OK to proceed.
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