Re: Good fdisk Practices
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On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote:
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> 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?
That was the definite truth in v2.4 and lower. It was supposed to
be fixed in 2.6.
> 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?
I doubt it. I still do it, though, from tradition I guess.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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