Re: "Dump device" is only partition never swap file right? Deliberate or onl f historic reasons?

2018-03-15 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On 15/03/18 00:32, Tinker wrote: > Hi, > > I normally won't use any swap, and if it gets utilized then low > performance would be fine, so normally using a swap file would be > satisfactory for all my swap needs. > > That is, if it was not for OS crash dumps. I like to catch those (to >

"Dump device" is only partition never swap file right? Deliberate or onl f historic reasons?

2018-03-14 Thread Tinker
Hi, I normally won't use any swap, and if it gets utilized then low performance would be fine, so normally using a swap file would be satisfactory for all my swap needs. That is, if it was not for OS crash dumps. I like to catch those (to encrypted media) as they can provide insight into the