Re: usb stick as swap partition

From: Gideon N. Guillen (gideong_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/15/04

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To: mrguytx@austin.rr.com, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:02:42 -0500, W. Guy Thomas <mrguytx@austin.rr.com> wrote:
    > 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

    Well, have you used this usb stick for other stuff? If the answer is
    no, well, it's possible that you have a memory stick that uses the
    entire block dvice, not partitions, like /dev/sda instead of
    /dev/sda1.

    Anyway, as the other poster said, this is not recommended. Even if
    your hard disk will be free, this will slow down you computer even
    more as your system will be put to a state where the kernel has to
    finish writing to virtual memory before handing over cpu/resources
    again to processes. 

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