pagefile instead of swap

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:45:25PM +0200, Christian Bj?levik wrote:
> s??n 2005-10-23 klockan 15:17 +0200 skrev MadMan2k:
> > By default the ubuntu installer creates a swap partition and complains 
> > if you don't create one during manual partitioning.
> > But I think a swap partition is quite inflexible - imagine a user 
> > upgrades his PC so he wont need one any more - then he will
> > have to repartition his drive to get rid of the swap partition.
> > 
> > Wouldn't it make much more sense to create a page file, which one can 
> > move around resize and delete and recreate without having to touch the 
> > partition-table. I#m still unsure whether it has a performance impact 
> > though...
> > 
> > M2k
> 
> Actually, we use that partition for hibernation aswell...

suspend2 supports hibernating to both swap files *and* normal files :)
Unfortunately, we don't run suspend2 :(

I agree in general, swapfiles are nifty and usefull tho, apart from the
suspend-to-disk thing.

Trent

> 
> Sincerely,
> /Christian
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> Christian Bj??levik <nafallo at ubuntu.com>



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