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Re: [opensuse] Creating a swap file
  • From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:14:41 -0800
  • Message-id: <200701112114.41999.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 11 January 2007 20:50, John E. Perry wrote:
> ...
>
> ...By the way, all this discussion has been about swap _files_, ...
>
> Are there any advantages to one arrangement over the other? It seems
> there would be some advantage to having the possibility of building a
> new swap file if you're short on swap space.

The only time I've used a swap file is when I needed to increase
available swap and repartitioning was inconvenient. And when is
repartitioning convenient?


> ...
>
> John Perry


Randall Schulz
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