Re: Swap space settings and other partitioning q's
From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 02/09/05
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:28:17 +0100
Paul Sherwin wrote:
> On , Morningdew <yahooaddyismorning42dew@spam.free> wrote:
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>>To turn Paul's argument around, I can always cut back
>>on swap space later.
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> This is difficult if you configure a big swap partition. Sure, you can
> delete the swap partition and create a smaller one, but that leaves
> you with a chunk of free disk space. All you can do with this without
> repartitioning the whole disk is to create another small filesystem
> partition in it, which isn't much use.
The most commonly used filesystem, ext3 do allow adjusting slice sices, if you
would create a big swap and then decide to cut it down to half (or what ever),
you can still assign the "free" space to the slice before/after and grow that
filesystem.
> A swap file is much more flexible, but most people prefer a partition
> because there's less overhead.
swapfile is slower too and in ms-world one of the main reasons for the
fragmenation of the filesystem and overall system slowness.
//Aho
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