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Re: 3rd new wheezy install



On Monday, February 09, 2015 02:13:33 PM Paul E Condon wrote:
[...] 
> You could use a file in your first partition for swap instead of a
> separate partion (that is badly configured) for swap. Having swap on
> its own partition seems to have lost some of its technical advantage
> due to changes in how modern drives are designed, or so I have heard
> somewhere. (Hoping to generate some informed responses...)
>
I have read that recently, but have never tried it.  So this is not an 
informed response. ;-)

But it has been mentioned enough times recently that it might be an 
alternative for someone trying to live in  only1 or 2 gigs of ram.

Thanks Paul.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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