-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole >> disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap >> partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart >> desires, whenever you need them. > > I'd always heard that swap files are slower than swap partitions. Is > that a myth?
That was the definite truth in v2.4 and lower. It was supposed to be fixed in 2.6. > Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern > system? I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old > BIOSes that couldn't load anything that wasn't on the first part of the > disk. I tend to just combine /boot and / on my newer systems -- am I > taking some kind of risk by doing so? I doubt it. I still do it, though, from tradition I guess. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGzw9ES9HxQb37XmcRAqKPAKDWVKYjxK6roMeUbZ2plcA6veRuDQCgpLpJ YbvbJ81FH1CAq3LOhrP7KEs= =KHco -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
