Should I be concerned about this message during a fresh install on a brand new hard drive? I have 1GB of physical memory. How necessary is the swap partition? Thanks for any pointers. A Swap partition is good to have, but not entirely necessary. You can also create a swap file on your system. The mkswap(8) man page has instructions for doing this. In Linux, the swapon(8) command turns on
On Sat, 22 May 2004 22:48:08 -0700 (PDT)
cygnia@sonic.net wrote:
the spap space, and swapoff(8) turns it off. The swapon(8) is performed
on each swap space defined in /etc/fstab when you transition to
multi-user mode during bootup. But, you can issue these commands
manually.
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Jerry Feldman