Re: Where do you put your swap partition?
Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 15:50 schrieb Ron Johnson:
> On 01/21/08 03:16, Thomas Flaig wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 03:30 schrieb Ron Johnson:
> > > I think it's foolish to have a swap *partition* in the 21st century.
> > But there are other reasons for a swap partition in the 21st century:
> You miss the distinction between swap partition and swap *file*.
Ok:
> > * There are some Un*x-like operating system which are able to save
> > system dumps on a swap partition for debuging after system crash.
Which un*x-like operation system can do this with a swap *file*?
On freeBSD you need a swap partition to obtain a kernel crash dump (at
least as far as I know).[0]
> > * If you like to use hibernate/suspend to disk, you can build a
> > kernel with something like
> > CONFIG_PM=y
> > CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y
> > CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION="/dev/sdaX"
Does this also work for a swap *file*? Or do I need a swap partition?
If it works with a swap *file* I would like to see an explanation how to
do this or a link to a HOWTO.
Thomas
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[0]
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
| A “swap device” is synonymous with a “swap partition.”
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dumpon&sektion=8
| Because the file system layer is already dead by the time a crash dump
| is taken, it is not possible to send crash dumps directly to a file.
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Thomas Flaig
mailto: thomas.flaig@unibw.de
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