Re: Where do you put your swap partition?
Am Montag, 21. Januar 2008 17:34 schrieb Ron Johnson:
> On 01/21/08 09:53, Thomas Flaig wrote:
> > 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]
> This is Linux, not BSD.
> Of course, I've never heard of Linux being able to do crash dumps.
Yes, this is Linux but you wrote about the 21st century. ;)
I didn't know if Linux is abel to do something like this or not.
> >>> * 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?
> Since I don't have a laptop running Linux, I've never had reason to
> examine this.
Even on PC's it would be a nice feature:
At home I prefer to power-off my PC if I am not at home.
Suspend to disc would reduce the boot-uop time, but I am too lazy to
configure this. ;)
> Can the STD partition be the same as the swap partition?
Yes, it should be a swap partition:
| CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION:
|
| The default resume partition is the partition that the suspend-
| to-disk implementation will look for a suspended disk image.
| The partition specified here will be different for almost every user.
|
| It should be a valid swap partition (at least for now) that is turned
| on before suspending.
|......
Thomas
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