Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4626 mails)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 11 2007 16:42, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
>On 2007-01-11 15:57, James D. Parra wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to create a 2 GB swap file after adding more memory to my system,
>> however how can I create such file by modifying the command below;
>>   
>A swap ~file~?? You'd be far better off doing some repartitioning to
>create a new swap partition, as you'll then avoid all the overhead of
>the filesystem on the partition where the swapfile resides.

I would not wonder if the swap file was implicitly activated with O_DIRECT.
Ask LKML perhaps.


	-`J'
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