Re: [SLUG] swap drive, partition or no?

From: Andy Woeber (scoville300@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Fri Apr 05 2002 - 07:07:58 EST


Do you have 4G in memory to swap. Shame to use all that space for swap.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Braman" <aeon@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 6:07 PM
Subject: [SLUG] swap drive, partition or no?

>
> 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?
>
>
> Paul Braman
> aeon@tampabay.rr.com
>
>



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