Re: Swap file location

2001-03-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:56:51PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > That's what I did (more or less). I also have a swap partition, but I > set the priority for the swap file in /etc/fstab so the dedicated swap > partition would be used first -- Somehow, I don't think this matters > since they are b

Re: Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:34:40PM -0800, Michael J. Micek wrote: > If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? > /var/local/swap0? That's what I did (more or less). I also have a swap partition, but I set the priority for the swap file in /etc/fstab so the dedicated swap partiti

Re: Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread iehrenwald
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Michael J. Micek wrote: > If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? > /var/local/swap0? On a very fast drive (7200RPM U2WSCSI or faster) seperate from all other filesystem tasks. Mount it under /swapfiles and add the apropriate entries in fstab. Don't for

Re: swap file signature

1999-09-02 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > i have deleted and then readded a swap partition... > > when i reboot it says : activiting swap file >unable to find swap-space signature > > hmm > > do i have to set up the swap partition from a boot disk rather than from a

Re: swap file

1997-09-15 Thread Jim Pick
> i want to install debian and i want to know if it's possible to share > the > same partition for swap file of win95 and linux. > > if it's possible, how to do this??? There's a mini-HOWTO for this: /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Swap-Space.gz I've never done it myself though. Cheers, - Jim