On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 19:22:58 +0100 Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 05/01/2020 à 18:50, Joe a écrit : > > > > Windows uses a swap file, not a separate partition. We are told that > > there is no performance penalty for Linux to do so also. > > Using a swap file can cause a performance penalty if the file is > heavily fragmented. Granted, it also applies to a fragmented LVM > logical volume, but the granularity is bigger (4 MiB extents for LVM > vs 4 KiB for usual filesystem blocks). Also, not all filesystems > support swap files properly. For those which don't, you can still use > a swap file through a loop device, but this will cause a performance > penalty and I doubt it is supported in /etc/fstab. > > > As far as I can recall, the expert system allows you to designate > > existing partitions to be used or not, and also whether to reformat > > them. > > This has nothing to do with the expert install but with the manual > partitioning, which is also available in the standard install. > OK, I stand corrected, I haven't used a standard install in many years, not since it failed to find a DHCP server (I wasn't using one then) and left me with no network interfaces but lo. -- Joe
