-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2005-09-04 at 13:49 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
A while back I was asking around about whether two separate swap partitions for a single Linux is safe or not.
That it's safe is not debated. But I just want to point out that it does break *some* functionality. Observe the error message I got:
kdialog - more than one swap partition - cannot suspend to disk
Very true, and unfortunate. I had to dissable one of my two swap partitions. Notice that it is not sufficient to dissable the extra partitions with "swapoff", but you have to comment out the entry in /etc/fstab as well. Interestingly, it is not the kernel that complaints. You can use "swsusp" to suspend with both partitions active and it will not complain: I tried. However, in my case it crashed at the end of the recovery sequence, but I think it did because the command "powersave -U" does some things before actually suspending, like removing certain kernel modules that do not suspend well, and the command "swsusp" is raw. I think that it should be possible to suspend with two partitions active in some cases, but I don't know how to tell it to do so. For the moment, either you make do with one swap partition, or deactivate extra swaps right before suspending. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDHBtNtTMYHG2NR9URArRyAJ9vlvJsKEswgQIkFEFn+5wkC+WS0wCcDqEo FfTEABNbhHbdIUcb29ZPYwc= =oyWa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----