Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-26 Thread William Dutton
what about vista ntfs partitions if someone is duel booting? On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tyler Smith wrote: > > > > > On 2008-02-22, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-26 Thread Rich Healey
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tyler Smith wrote: > > > On 2008-02-22, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Are you aware that you can resize your partitions non destructively > using > >> something like qtparted? First ba

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-26 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Jimmy Wu wrote: > I always thought resizing or doing any partition editing carried some > risk of losing data (ie no guarantees), but perhaps ext3 is different. > The "no guarantees" disclaimer goes with pretty much all of the GPL software. The users always have to make backups. No software is 1

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-26 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just as an experiment, I did a sudo hibernate -v3 > hibernate.out, and > it says that it was unable to unload nvidia and aborts hibernation > (see attached file). So I guess pm-hibernate kind of went ahead and > shut down

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-26 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Jimmy Wu wrote: >>From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be > able to hibernate/suspend to disk properly, the swap partition has to > be big enough to hold all of the RAM inside it, right? > > Is it possible to hibernate if my swap partition is smaller than my > RAM?

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-22 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jimmy Wu wrote: > > >>From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be > > able to hibernate/suspend to disk properly, the swap partition has to > > be big enough to hold all of the RAM insi

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-22 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Chris Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is High memory support turned on in the kernel? This could explain why > hibernation is working whilst you have 2gig's in the system. > > Processor type and features > -> High Memory Support > I remember seeing suc

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-22 Thread Sudev Barar
On 22/02/2008, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jimmy Wu wrote: > > From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be > > able to hibernate/suspend to disk properly, the swap partition has to > > be big enough to hold all of the RAM inside it, right? > > > > Is it p

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-21 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:11:54AM -0500, Jimmy Wu wrote: > > Not really what you were saying, but I suppose it might work. But > first I have to figure out if it really is inadequate swap that's > giving me grief. I would assume that upon doing a fresh boot-up you would be using much less memo

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Jimmy Wu wrote: > From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be > able to hibernate/suspend to disk properly, the swap partition has to > be big enough to hold all of the RAM inside it, right? > > Is it possible to hibernate if my swap partition is smaller than my > RAM? I

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Riley
Is High memory support turned on in the kernel? This could explain why hibernation is working whilst you have 2gig's in the system. Processor type and features -> High Memory Support On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:07

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-21 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > Jimmy Wu wrote: > > >>From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be > > > able to hibernate/suspend to disk p

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-21 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Jimmy Wu wrote: > >>From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be > > able to hibernate/suspend to disk properly, the swap partition has to > > be big enough to hold all of the RAM inside i

hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-21 Thread Jimmy Wu
>From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be able to hibernate/suspend to disk properly, the swap partition has to be big enough to hold all of the RAM inside it, right? Is it possible to hibernate if my swap partition is smaller than my RAM? I have 2 GB of RAM, and whe