J Sloan wrote:
...By the way, all this discussion has been about swap _files_, which for a long time were not possible under linux. Until fairly recently, swapping had to be to and from partitions. Fairly recently, in geological terms, you mean? ISTR setting up a linux swap file in 1993 or so, sort of an "oops I needed a bigger swap
John E. Perry wrote: partition" kind of thing.
Geez, has it really been that long? I didn't buy 5.0 until 1996 or so, and I distinctly remember being in terror at the prospect of killing a disk by changing all that partitioning. Or maybe it was even earlier when I tried unsuccessfully to make Slackware work? -- John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org