> it's a 4 gig drive > > do you really think having a 4 gig swap disk is worth it on a system with 32 > meg ram? No, but I don't think it would do any harm, *if* you're not going to use the rest of the disk anyway. > and do I have to format the whole drive as swap? Yes: mkswap -v1 /dev/hdx > > Renai > It's not that much of a performance gain. Calculating partition boundaries is probably nothing more than 10 lines of code per access, but if you're going to make one big swap partition that fills up the whole disk, you might as well just make it a swap drive. If not, don't bother. -- Dwayne C. Litzenberger - dlitz@dlitz.net
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