Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How crucial is a swap partition? The only think I know of it being > used for is virtual RAM memory, am I wrong? Having 896 MB of RAM I > didn't think that I would need one, but I can either use the 512 MB > chunk I left free for that, or make another larger partition available, > if this list of people more knowledgeable in Linux than I, recommends it.
No, you don't need a separate partition. You have enough memory and if it went to the end, you can always create a empty file run mkswan on it and use it with swapon /file. But with 896MB RAM you may live a long time without it. J�rg. -- Alles Gute w�chst im Dunklen, bis es stark genug ist, ans Tageslicht zu kommen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
