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Charles Roberts writes:
> Tiago Saboga wrote:
>> steef writes:
>>
>>> hi list,
>>>
>>> starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or
>>> something like that)
>>> starting up my machine a second and third time did not give any
>>> trouble at all.
<..>
mm... guess it's a hardware problem: the hd maybe as roger
I don't think so. No problems with older versions, and never had any
other problem with the disk - nothing in the logs, no smart warnings, no
data corruption.
Tiago.
thanks, tiago:
ok i'll have a good look at
steef writes:
> Tiago Saboga wrote:
>> steef writes:
>>> starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or
>>> something like that)
>>> starting up my machine a second and third time did not give any
>>> trouble at all.
>> It's happening too, exactly the same. That's just on
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon,18.May.09, 07:08:35, steef wrote:
suggested?? and, indeed, how trustworthy is smartmontools (smartctl -H
/dev/hdx) ?
According to the Google study (about hdd failures) a bad result from
S.M.A.R.T. is almost always bad, but a good result doesn't mean the
On Mon,18.May.09, 07:08:35, steef wrote:
> suggested?? and, indeed, how trustworthy is smartmontools (smartctl -H
> /dev/hdx) ?
According to the Google study (about hdd failures) a bad result from
S.M.A.R.T. is almost always bad, but a good result doesn't mean the hdd
is ok.
Regards,
Andrei
Tiago Saboga wrote:
steef writes:
hi list,
starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or
something like that)
starting up my machine a second and third time did not give any
trouble at all.
is there a generally known reason for a computerstart hanging on
activatin
steef writes:
> hi list,
>
> starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or
> something like that)
> starting up my machine a second and third time did not give any
> trouble at all.
>
> is there a generally known reason for a computerstart hanging on
> activating a swapfi
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:09:48PM +0200, steef wrote:
> hi list,
>
> starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or
> something like that)
>
> is there a generally known reason for a computerstart hanging on
> activating a swapfile?
If the same disk already had your ro
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:07:04PM +0200, Jens Karsten Müller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> today i created a swapfile instead of a partition, because i think
> it's more dynamic. I only see advantages using a swapfile. So first of
> all, I'd like to know about disadvantages, because almost everybody
> uses
On Sat, 1 May 1999, add|ct|on wrote:
> my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was
> wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have
> 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to
> make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram wi
add|ct|on wrote:
>my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was
>wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have
>16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to
>make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with
> my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was
> wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have
> 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to
> make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with
> partitions again? i
On Fri, Apr 03, 1998 at 01:33:24PM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote:
>
> Is there any performance loss to making swapfiles (large ones), as opposed
> to having a static swap partition?
> Will it (this may sound silly, but my hard drive is old too ... 1993)
> increase the wear and tear on my hard driv
>
>
> Hi,
> I was wondering whether there are any benefits to using a swap partition
> as opposed to using a swap file.
> I am running debian 1.3 on a system with relatively low resources (200
> megs HD, 12 megs ram), and have it set up to have a 12 meg swap partition.
> But, today I found out ab
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