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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Limitations on the partition of linux Post 302363961 by Corona688 on Wednesday 21st of October 2009 05:51:11 PM
Old 10-21-2009
What partitions you create depends on what your setup is. There aren't significant limitations on partitions for a modern PC.
 

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all-swaps(7)						 Miscellaneous Information Manual					      all-swaps(7)

NAME
all-swaps - event signalling that all swap partitions have been activated SYNOPSIS
all-swaps [ENV]... DESCRIPTION
The all-swaps event is generated by the mountall(8) daemon after it has activated all swap partitions listed in fstab(5). mountall(8) emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so in parallel with other activ- ity. When this event occurs, common filesystems such as /usr may not be mounted. EXAMPLE
A service that wishes to be running once swap partitions are activated might use: start on all-swaps SEE ALSO
mounting(7) mounted(7) virtual-filesystems(7) local-filesystems(7) remote-filesystems(7) filesystem(7) mountall 2009-12-21 all-swaps(7)
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