On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 21:16, Rob wrote: > With 5.3 it has become much easier to add swap as a regular file, > remove it later, or add a bigger or smaller one instead. > > The swap partition always causes me little headache: once the > size is choosen at partitioning during install, it's fixed. > I can't size it up or down anymore, unless I go fiddling with > the partition table, which I desperately like to avoid. > > So, why not using swapfile without swap partition at all. > Have it on a big partition with lots of space. If there's a > problem with the space, I can easily move the swap elsewhere. > A swapfile is so much more flexible. > > Is there a downside of not using swap partition, and have only > swapfile instead?
You can't save crash dumps, and it is less efficient. In general you don't need much swap if you have a reasonable amount of RAM, so it's not usually necessary to resize your swap when you get more RAM (unless you want to save crashdumps..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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