Re: [Sheflug] /swap

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] clara.co.uk>]

On Sun, 13 May 2001, ross wrote:

> On Sunday 13 May 2001 07:28, you wrote:
> > is
> > there any kind of definitive amount for /swap?
>
> the general rule i use is swap size = 1.5 x ram
>
> just curious..... you refer to swap as /swap   as if it has a mount point?
> your do have a proper swap partition don't you? (one that you can't see
> through a file manager)

I put /swap so you didn't think I was using a swap file - without
thinking that's precisely what it's going to look like.  Doh! Yup, it has
it's own partition.

Thanks

Harvey

>
> fstab entry like
> /dev/hda2 swap swap default 0 0
>
> --
> Thanks,
>         Ross
>                ross.h [at] ntlworld.com
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