On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 15:45, ext marvin wrote: > hi, > > an other issue concerning swap: > > with the old version, i manually created a swap partition as a 64(or less) MB > at the end of the > device. so if the area fails duo heavy usage it does not interfere with the > first partition and my > MMC card will only "loose" the last 64MB and the rest will not become > unusable. it would be nice > to have on option to manually select the swap partition in the gui (control > panel).
You can change the place of the partition file with some hacking (change value of OSSO_SWAP environment variable). It's also possible to create the '.swap' file manually beforehand (e.g. using dd & mkswap). BR; Kimmo > > regards marvin > > On Mon, June 12, 2006 14:18, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 17:35, ext Laurent MARTIN wrote: > > > >> Hi! > >> I've just installed the OS2006 beta and I'm not sure how I should > >> format my 1Gb RSMMC card to enable built-in "virtual memory" mechanism. > >> With the previous FW, I > >> had 2 partitions (vfat and ext2): now should I simply keep one large vfat > >> partition? > > > > The swap file will be stored to the first partition (VFAT if you format > > with the 770) as a file named '.swap'. So, there is no separate partition > > for it. Formatting MMC > > with 770 will probably destroy all your partitions, because I noticed one > > case when 770 couldn't > > format a usable MMC when it didn't zero the partition table first (so I > > will make it > > zero the partition table before repartitioning and formatting, to ensure > > that a usable MMC can be > > always formatted). Thus, if you want to use more than one partition, you'll > > need to partition and > > format MMC in a desktop machine. > > > > BR; Kimmo > > > > > >> TIA. > >> -- > >> Laurent, Nantes - France > >> Apple PowerBook 12" > >> Treo 650 (unlocked GSM) > >> Nokia 770 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ______________________________________________________________________ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> maemo-users mailing list [email protected] > >> https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > maemo-users mailing list [email protected] > > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list [email protected] https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
