On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:23 PM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> gmail.com> writes: > I also intend to use ext4 for all 3 partitions, boot,root,swap; > unless there exist a strong, compelling reason to use > ext-2 for the boot partition ??? ease of recovery ?
I gather that it's now possible to put your swap in a swap file on a filesystem, as opposed to giving it its own partition, but...why? -- :wq