6 Oct
2006
6 Oct
'06
17:04
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