James - that's quite new to me: > ... that when your system has a crash it is > still capable of writing a core dump to the harddisk.
I understood it hitherto that it's needed for cases when a program needs more mem than is free and available ? Or asked the other way round - would any program which uses more RAM than is available at a moment, be respeonsible care for "swapping" its parts (or rather for instance, parts of its data) in/out by itself, and to some own swap file ? The second part of James' reply is precisely what I hoped for: > (you) can make a new swap partition with eg fdisk and change > the entry for swap in /etc/fstab. Using an (emptied) partition to split off a part would be indeed much less risky than a real resizeing of the swap _partition_; and much less worksome, without GB-backups, <g> -hc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
