On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart desires, whenever you need them.
I'd always heard that swap files are slower than swap partitions. Is that a myth?
Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern system? I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old BIOSes that couldn't load anything that wasn't on the first part of the disk. I tend to just combine /boot and / on my newer systems -- am I taking some kind of risk by doing so?