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Re: Knoppix: Was: The *ONLY* real problem with Debian...



On  0, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
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> Unless the machine is low on RAM (32MB for non-GUI mode I believe; 96 or 
>  so for KDE mode), forcing Knoppix to use the hard drive for swap 
> space, the hard drives are mounted read-only in my experience. Once in, 
> you can remount them rw.

What the...

How can a swap partition be read-only?  How can a disk be used as swap
without overwriting (probably FAT32) partitions on the disk?

Tom
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