drive allocation

[willa]

I am getting to grips with linux ( slowly but surely), how ever i have to question that i dont seem to be able to find an answer for.

1 : when installing redhat 7.1 (offical disto) it asks me about swap drives and so such , but i cant find an information on what these are? and what will happen if i allocate more space to each .

2 : After setting up ethier KDE or Gnome i dont seam to be able to change the screen resolution is their a menu somewhere that i am missing!

Any help on ethier or both issuse would be great, thanks in advance!! :D :D

willa

[bdg1983]

Did you create a swap partition during the install?

Sometimes you can use ctrl-alt-(keypad)+ or - to change the resolution. If that doesn't work, then try xf86cfg (X4 - 'X -version' will tell you) or xf86config for X3.#.#.

[willa]

normally i wil just use the auto feature as i dont know what the swap dirve and so on are achally used for!

[Choozo]

It's not a 'swap drive' but a 'swap partition'. The swap partition is used by Linux to swap processes running in memory (your RAM), much like the way virtual memory is used in Windows.
Swap is usually set to twice the size of your physical memory (RAM). If you have 128MB RAM, set swap to 256MB.

Hope that cleared up the swap question? :)

[willa]

Choozo YOU ARE A STAR ! :D

that make perfect sence.

What about all the other types of partion that LINUX uses, is their any websites that detail them!! and how they all work?

[Choozo]

Originally posted by willa:
<STRONG>What about all the other types of partion that LINUX uses, is their any websites that detail them!! and how they all work?</STRONG>
I'm not sure if I understand your question here, but an explanation of the filesystem hierarchy can be found here: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

If you are thinking about the different formats - ext2, ReiserFS, etc. - do a search for those on http://www.google.com/linux

Cheers :)