Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 17:34 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On 01/21/08 09:53, Thomas Flaig wrote: > > Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 15:50 schrieb Ron Johnson: > >> On 01/21/08 03:16, Thomas Flaig wrote: > >>> Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 03:30 schrieb Ron Johnson: > >>>> I think it's foolish to have a swap *partition* in the 21st > >>>> century. > >>> But there are other reasons for a swap partition in the 21st > >>> century: > >> You miss the distinction between swap partition and swap *file*. > > Ok: > >>> * There are some Un*x-like operating system which are able to save > >>> system dumps on a swap partition for debuging after system crash. > > Which un*x-like operation system can do this with a swap *file*? > > On freeBSD you need a swap partition to obtain a kernel crash dump > > (at least as far as I know).[0] > This is Linux, not BSD. > Of course, I've never heard of Linux being able to do crash dumps.
Yes, this is Linux but you wrote about the 21st century. ;) I didn't know if Linux is abel to do something like this or not. > >>> * If you like to use hibernate/suspend to disk, you can build a > >>> kernel with something like > >>> CONFIG_PM=y > >>> CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y > >>> CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION="/dev/sdaX" > > Does this also work for a swap *file*? Or do I need a swap partition? > Since I don't have a laptop running Linux, I've never had reason to > examine this. Even on PC's it would be a nice feature: At home I prefer to power-off my PC if I am not at home. Suspend to disc would reduce the boot-uop time, but I am too lazy to configure this. ;) > Can the STD partition be the same as the swap partition? Yes, it should be a swap partition: | CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION: | | The default resume partition is the partition that the suspend- | to-disk implementation will look for a suspended disk image. | The partition specified here will be different for almost every user. | | It should be a valid swap partition (at least for now) that is turned | on before suspending. |...... Thomas -- Thomas Flaig mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
