On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:34:47 +0100
Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to what a prof. said, swapspace should be placed outside any
> filesystems since that filesystem would add to the already gigantic overhead
> the disk produces by adding a layer of indirection (look up the file,
Thanks for the advice guys I will leave swap partition as nature
intended !!
Dave
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On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 19:51, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2003 15:29:18 -0600
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Heck, not only would it not do anything useful for you, you just can't
> > do it!!
>
> Well, technically you can after a fashion. You can make a swap file on
> the curr
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 02:51, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Well, technically you can after a fashion. You can make a swap file on
> the current file system which could be ext3. In fact I've done just that
> with swapd. Question is what effects do a journalling file system have on
> swap files?
A
On 27 Jan 2003 15:29:18 -0600
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Heck, not only would it not do anything useful for you, you just can't
> do it!!
Well, technically you can after a fashion. You can make a swap file on
the current file system which could be ext3. In fact I've done just
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 13:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Ive converted my debian from ext2 to ext3 .. no problems.
> >
> > Do I need to do the same to my swap partition, is there any advantage
> > ??
> >
> > Dave
> >
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On Monday 27 January 2003 18:57, Dave Selby wrote:
> Ive converted my debian from ext2 to ext3 .. no problems.
>
> Do I need to do the same to my swap partition, is there any advantage ??
NO! Don't touch the swap partition. It has no file system and creating one
would corrupt it. A file system on
> Ive converted my debian from ext2 to ext3 .. no problems.
>
> Do I need to do the same to my swap partition, is there any advantage
> ??
>
> Dave
>
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I'm thinking not.
ext3
Ive converted my debian from ext2 to ext3 .. no problems.
Do I need to do the same to my swap partition, is there any advantage ??
Dave
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