On 05/02/2012 01:58 PM, Simon wrote:

<excellent help snipped for brevity>

> Except for issue pointed out by Paul about hibernation

That's an interesting point, and the reason for the problem is definitely
not obvious to me.  Anyone know the technical details?

> As for security, having a swap is less
> secure than having none:  a malicious persion could extract
> information from programs memory which was swapped

BTW, man mkswap says nothing about proper file permissions for a swapfile.
I'm guessing that only root should be able to read the file?


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