On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:07:50PM -0500, Paul Braman wrote:
>
> I've got this 4G HD sitting around and I figured I would use it as a "swap
> drive" for an installation I'm doing. (Debian, maybe, if I can be
> convinced I'm still geeky enough.)
>
> My question is, would the Linux kernel get more use out of the drive if I
> partitioned it up into, say, 4 1G partitions or just left it as one, big
> swap space?
>
> Or...does it matter?
>
I don't think there's any benefit for more than 2 * memory of swap
space. There used to be a stiff limitation like this in the 2.2 kernels,
but I don't know about the 2.4.
As a suggestion, I'd use the 4G as a backup drive. You could back up
your most important files to that drive nightly. That's what I do with
spare drives.
Paul
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