usb stick as swap partition

From: W. Guy Thomas (mrguytx_at_austin.rr.com)
Date: 10/15/04

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:02:42 -0500

    I have researched this but it seems no one wants to do this.
    Is it a bad idea?
    I think it would be better than my little hard drive churning on this
    old laptop.
    A full 128MB stick.
    Fedora sees the stick, I create a partition in fdisk of type 82.
    I use
    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=1024 count=131000

    then /sbin/mkswap /dev/sda1

    this takes a while, then it's done.

    but if I try to "swapon" /dev/sda1:

    "resource busy".

    any tips?

    I just want to cut down on the thrashing of my hard drive and if this is
    slower, then fine, at least I can do other things since my hard drive
    won't be churning away.

    Thanks for any further info!

    =G 

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