> e.g. A swap file on an encrypted partition. I am already using it in an encrypted partition. It does not give any problems.
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:29 PM Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Tim: > >> To be able to do that, it has to be able to read within a > >> filesystem by itself. There's probably only a small set of > >> filesystems it can handle. > > Samuel Sieb: > > No, you point the kernel at the offset of the header within the > > partition. The header contains pointers to the rest of the data. > > It doesn't have to know anything about the filesystem. > > Surely that'd be dependent on the entireity of the swap file being > arranged on the drive in a predictable manner. What if a swap file was > created on a system that didn't arrange all the bits so predictably? > > e.g. A swap file on an encrypted partition. > > -- > > uname -rsvp > Linux 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 17 23:49:17 UTC 2020 > x86_64 > > Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. > I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty
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