I'm not experimenting with the installation process, but with what I
want the result to be.
Those are 2 sides of the same coin.
> Does top show much use of swap anyway?)
Not a parameter of my experiment's protocol.
As I do not "know" how much swap space I require, I provide
Once again you contradict yourself. Sentence 1 states that you are experimenting but Sentence 2 complains that you don't know.
swap space
based on conservative estimates of _typical_ requirements. That
logically leads to my preference for a SINGLE large swap vs multiple
small swap areas. *YMMV* !!!
I can't parse that.
You said you were going to look into fstab. That's how you parse that :-)
> You've been flogging this dead horse for at least seven years now.
Horse ain't dead.
"It's dead Jim" - Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek
No
require my failures to be deterministic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was proven impossible in the 1930s by Alonzo Church and Alan Turing.
:-)
VM's are intrinsically unknown quantities.
Never, ever say that to Linus Torvalds.
Or Lennart Poettering.
:-)