Re: Good fdisk Practices
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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote:
>> 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.
If you use LVM you're stuck with a separate, non-LVM /boot partition
AFAIK. Or is this outated info?
Cassiano
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