Swap files and panics

2012-05-29 Thread Warren Block
Recently I rearranged partitions on an SSD. The swap partition was eliminated in favor of a swap file on /usr. This works, allows TRIM support on the swap space, and is easier to resize than a partition. However, sometimes the system panics on shutdown. It happens after "syncing disks", so

Re: Swap files and panics

2012-05-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:54 AM 5/29/2012, Warren Block wrote: Recently I rearranged partitions on an SSD. The swap partition was eliminated in favor of a swap file on /usr. This works, allows TRIM support on the swap space, and is easier to resize than a partition. However, sometimes the system panics on shutd