-original message- Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance From: Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> Date: 2011-07-02 07:22
>Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> writes: > >> Well, thanks for pointing out the error in my appliance creation script >> that mistakenly sets up the serial console on non-headless VMs. I've >> fixed the bug and created and uploaded a new image. > >My tiny input isn't much... the big thanks goes to you and to James >for the walkthru to use Vbox on your appliances. > >At the risk of exposing further ignorance on my part, I'm curious what >it means in fstab where you have: > > /.swap none swap sw 0 0 > >At the swap line. That means the system is using a swapfile -- whose name is '.swap' and located in the root directory '/' -- rather than a swap partition. >That's another thing I haven't seen before.I mean the /DOTswap >`/.swap', does it just mean there is no swap? Nope. You can call the file 'my_awesome_file_for_swapping' and put it in /var/cache, resulting in '/var/cache/my_awesome_file_for_swapping' instead of '/.swap'. The dot, as usual, is to un-clutter the output of 'ls /' (unless you use the -a switch, of course) Note: If you want to use your own file, don't forget to 'mkswap /path/to/file' *before* replacing the entry in fstab >I've noticed similar behavior on google if you try something >like "--color=auto" as a search term.. google appears to throw >out the `--' (dashdash) and the `=' equal sign. Somewhere in the jungle of documents in Google's help system, Google explained that they index *only* based on letters, and strip out symbols. Except for symbols that became part of a trademark, e.g., 'C#'. Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Sent from Nokia E72-1
