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Re: [debian-knoppix] Swapoff -a?



On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:54:49PM -0400, Brian Anon wrote:
> Klaus,
> 
> I'm thinking that if the Knoppix CD mounts a swap partition as read-write 
> during the boot process, there is a risk that any information previously 
> stored in the swap partition may be modified.  This could compromise the 
> integrity of any collected information for forensic analysis.

You are right, I did not think about this possibility before.

What about this: If we boot into a certain runlevel (4 for example),
there is no swap initialization. Or maybe a boot option
"noswap" would be more inituitive. Would this be OK? 

-Klaus
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