Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013+debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Rich Healey <healey.rich@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Jimmy Wu wrote:
> > >>From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be
> > > able to hibernate/suspend to disk properly, the swap partition has to
> > > be big enough to hold all of the RAM inside it, right?
> [...]
>
> > Yes, you'll need to have the same sized swap as RAM, although from
> > memory there is a way to force it to do it with less...
>
> All right, I'll look into that. What I can't figure out is why the
> actual hibernate part (setting restore point) seems to have worked.
Just found this article about using swap files instead of swap partitions
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/550
Not really what you were saying, but I suppose it might work. But
first I have to figure out if it really is inadequate swap that's
giving me grief.
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Jimmy Wu
Registered Linux User #454138
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