On Sunday 26 June 2005 03:37, Donn Washburn wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 26 June 2005 02:56, Greg Wallace wrote:
If you delete the file from /dev it wouldn't. But why would you do that?
I can give you a reason. That is during an install SuSE spots a swap space on a USB HD it will try to use it. Look in /etc/fstab to prove it. If you disconnect/remove the device - at the next boot time you will get an error - a red "Fail".
Not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you suggesting that if you delete the device node from /dev you won't get an error? I beg to differ Besides, failing to activate a swap device is not a fatal error, the system will still boot and run (unless it's the only available swap device and you have way to little real memory) The installer won't activate any swap devices automatically. In the partitioning setup it may set all partitions with ID = swap to be used as swap, but you always have the chance to override it, without any need to physically delete the device node And with the hal/udev hotplugging setup I don't think it even matters if you delete it, as I think it will be recreated automatically. Not sure about that though, I haven't fully explored all the features of the new stuff