On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 22:00, J. Greenlees wrote: > > > Elliott Martin wrote: > > Hello, > > I decided to do a clean install of 9.1b1 and have discovered that a swap > > partition is now a requirement even if you do an expert install. Could the > > installer be made to ignore the presence of a swap partition during an > > expert installation as it was before? I'd hate to have the installer push > > me off mandrake linux :P > > -Elliott > > and with a journalised file system the swap partition is actually > extremely useful, it helps avoid data loss when writing to hard drive. > from my quick looks at other ditro's they all require a swap partition > as well, no way around it with journalised file systems.
odd. well with > 1GB of Ram systems, I thought swap wasn't really needed. matter of fact, my system rarely touches swap with 1GB of ram...if it even has! Yea, don't think i've ever used swap on a 1GB ram system. Basically, I try to avoid using swap at all costs. I even hate how the kernel uses up the remaining about of ram on this laptop that has 512MB ram and uses it as cache. Having to end up using swap on a laptop is somewhat power consuming! -- Roger ----- Verify my pgp/gnupg signature on my homepage: http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html
