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Re: [SLE] swap filesystem size limit?
- From: Stan Glasoe <srglasoe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:04:40 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200610061204.14545.srglasoe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Friday 06 October 2006 10:37, Robert Lewis wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> > You can have multiple swap partitions and even use swap files.
>
> This is probably picky. But I think the subject line for this
> discussion is incorrect.
> Swap is not a filesystem. It does take a partition but it is raw disk
> storage not
> a filesystem as far as I know.
You are correct for swap partitions. Linux does allow using a swap file
though, which can come in very handy; you don't want to repartition your
hard drive (512MB to 2GB memory upgrade) for a larger swap file (you use
suspend-to-disk and your swap partition is only 1GB) but you have extra
space on a partition. Create a swap file of > 2GB to hold suspend-to-disk.
Stan
> James Knott wrote:
> > You can have multiple swap partitions and even use swap files.
>
> This is probably picky. But I think the subject line for this
> discussion is incorrect.
> Swap is not a filesystem. It does take a partition but it is raw disk
> storage not
> a filesystem as far as I know.
You are correct for swap partitions. Linux does allow using a swap file
though, which can come in very handy; you don't want to repartition your
hard drive (512MB to 2GB memory upgrade) for a larger swap file (you use
suspend-to-disk and your swap partition is only 1GB) but you have extra
space on a partition. Create a swap file of > 2GB to hold suspend-to-disk.
Stan
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