Hi David, Point taken, I never hibernate the system but may occasionally suspend it. I dare say there may be a number of good reasons for swap I just don't need any of them currently. But you are right, HDD space is cheap so dedicating a few GB to swap costs almost nothing.
It is nice to know there are lurkers on here. Still not solved the Kernel panic here so anyone wants to help be my guest. Output is... Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0) Clive On 28 October 2011 14:37, David Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/10/11 13:51, Clive Cooper wrote: >> The swap is not important and to be honest since the amount of memory >> is normally over 2 or 3 GB nowadays I have never seen the swap space >> ever get used, I have monitored using 'top'. > > > I regularly use my swap space. It's where Linux stores the state of my > system whenever I hibernate it :-) > > It's a bit of a pain, having to have a 4GB chunk of my hard drive > dedicated just for this but, hey, hard drive space is cheap :-) > > Apologies for the interruption, it's just that everyone nowadays seems > to be saying that you don't need swap space and forgets this rather > important (to some of us) use of it, so I've made it my mission to > remind people every time I see it said that swap is unnecessary. (Can > you see my halo? No? I must try harder ;-) ) > > Back to lurking. > > David Shaw > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- Infinity: A concept for those who cannot comprehend the big picture. () Arch Linux - For movers and shakers. () -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
