Re: Where do you put your swap partition?
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On 01/21/08 16:51, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, 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:
>
> But I don't, and I really prefer a swap partition. It is much easier and
> faster to encrypt it to an ephemeral 64-bit blowfish key (fast, good enough
> for my modest security needs) using dm-crypt than to use an encrypting
> filesystem.
Good point. I only GPG encrypt the few files that I really care
about, though.
As I see it, the problem with swap partitions is their static
nature. (Once you partition the whole disk, it's partitioned. Of
course, you can leave some un-allocated space on the disk, but that
seems a waste.) So, if a year down the road, you add more RAM and
commensurately want to increase the swap space, you're stuck.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian
because I hate vegetables!"
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