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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:47:02
Message-Id: 1600835.36WSr7p2mR@andromeda
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions by Christian Kruse
1 On Thursday, September 04, 2014 09:01:41 AM Christian Kruse wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > At Wed, 3 Sep 2014 22:30:32 -0600, Joseph wrote:
5 > > But they omitted the Boot partition.
6 > >
7 > > Device Start End Size Type
8 > > /dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition
9 > > /dev/sda2 6144 4200447 2G Linux swap
10 > > /dev/sda3 4200448 117231374 53.9G Linux filesystem
11 > >
12 > > There is Bios Boot 2MB but no Boot partition where kernel is located.
13 >
14 > The 2M partition is the boot partition. But it is much to small, I've
15 > been re-sizing it to 1G. That's more than enough for the initrd image,
16 > grub and the kernel.
17 >
18 > By the way, keep in mind that if you plan to use suspend to disk you
19 > will need 2x RAM disk space on swap in the worst case.
20
21 No you don't.
22
23 I have 16GB RAM in my laptop and my swap partition is 17GB.
24
25 Just make sure you create a file like:
26 ***
27 $ cat /etc/local.d/suspend_image_size.start
28 #!/bin/sh
29 #
30 echo 0 > /sys/power/image_size
31 ***
32
33 And make this executable.
34
35 This fixes the problem I had that I couldn't suspend to disk when using
36 more then half the memory.
37
38 With this, I never have an issue with hibernate.
39
40 --
41 Joost