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Bug#613796: partman-partitioning: Put swap at begin of disk instead of at end



On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:18:33PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Is it? I thought it was the default. More doesn't make sense.

If you have 8GB ram, 256MB swap is useless.  4 or 8GB might be useful.
Some people work with datasets that large sometimes.  If you have 32MB
ram, 256MB swap is probably too much.

> That seems silly.

Linux has always been that way.  It will only rescan a partition table
if the device isn't in use at all.

-- 
Len Sorensen



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