>> I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole >> disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap >> partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart >> desires, whenever you need them.
> I'd always heard that swap files are slower than swap partitions. Is that > a myth? > Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern system? > I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old BIOSes that > couldn't load anything that wasn't on the first part of the disk. I tend > to just combine /boot and / on my newer systems -- > am I taking some kind of risk by doing so? All my drives have 2 partitions: a /boot (with ext2 or ext3) of about 100MB and the rest is an partition dedicated to LVM. The reason for the separate /boot is that GRUB does not know how to read files from LVM volumes, so I need to load the kernel and initrd files from an ext[23]. Everything else (/, /home, swap, etc..) is placed in LVM volumes. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]