swap

[Jerry Feldman]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:15:11 -0500
"Jonathan Linowes" <jonathan at linowes.com> wrote:

> Does the swap area have to be a partition or can it be a file? 
> if it can, are there any disadvantage to doing this?
> I'm on RH9 and recently added a faster hard drive that's got plenty of
space.
Swap may be a partition, a file, or no swap at all. Just like Burger
King's "Have It Your way".
Look at the swapon(8) command.

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