-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > 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.
If you use LVM you're stuck with a separate, non-LVM /boot partition AFAIK. Or is this outated info? Cassiano -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGzxRJq4Bz51JiUuERAq0LAKDrxG2z5Ix6fTWTWuIhhQk7FQWDqQCgjLUV zNPlzIXg0uaJzNbuNspaJeU= =EAQs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
