Re: Good fdisk Practices

[Jamin Davis <jweb@ghost.merseine.nu>]

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> 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.

After reading this thread I switched from using two swap partitions to
swapfiles. It may sound obvious but the docs I read didn't mention
permissions on the swapfile which should be 0600.. don't want a
world-readable swap :)

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