On Friday, July 1 at 19:22 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> writes: [...] > At the risk of exposing further ignorance on my part, I'm curious what > it means in fstab where you have: > > /.swap none swap sw 0 0 > > At the swap line. > > That's another thing I haven't seen before.I mean the /DOTswap > `/.swap', does it just mean there is no swap? For the virtual appliances, I use a swap file instead of a swap partition, partially because I'm lazy and partially because it's easier to resize later on than a partition. The "." just means it's a standard "hidden" file per Unix convention[1] (i.e. you won't normally see if if you do "ls" but will if you do "ls -a". > Its hard to google because google doesn't recognize the . (dot), so a > search with terms like: > > site:gentoo.org fstab "/.swap" > > still finds /swap (with no dot) google throws out the dot. > > I've noticed similar behavior on google if you try something > like "--color=auto" as a search term.. google appears to throw > out the `--' (dashdash) and the `=' equal sign. You'd probably not find anything useful via Google anyway. It's just a standard swap file, but the name starts with a ".". You can rename it to whatever you want. -a [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_file_and_hidden_directory#Unix_and_Unix-like_environments
