Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop
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Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:51:53 -0500 Ron Johnson
> <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> David R. Litwin wrote:
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>
> Note that there are no swap partitions. This is because I use
> swap *files*, which give you much more flexibility. (In case you
> add more RAM later, you just add another swapfile, whereas with
> partitions, you're stuck with your initial partition map.)
>
>
>> But IIRC swap files are slower then swap partitions. Probably a
>> better solution is to have a basic swap partition and then add
>> swap files as needed (it I recall there is also a utility for
>> automatically adding swap files but I don't remember more).
That's how they were back before 2.6. Allegedly swapfiles are now
just as "fast" as partitions.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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