Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1Ron Johnson wrote:On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote:On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart desires, whenever you need them.I'd always heard that swap files are slower than swap partitions. Is that a myth?That was the definite truth in v2.4 and lower. It was supposed to be fixed in 2.6.Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern system? I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old BIOSes that couldn't load anything that wasn't on the first part of the disk. I tend to just combine /boot and / on my newer systems -- am I taking some kind of risk by doing so?I doubt it. I still do it, though, from tradition I guess.If you use LVM you're stuck with a separate, non-LVM /boot partition AFAIK. Or is this outated info?
Also true if you use XFS filesystem for /, as grub has (or had) problems with reading it.
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