J Sloan wrote: > > John E. Perry wrote: >> ...By the way, all this discussion has been about swap _files_, which >> for a long time were not possible under linux. Until fairly recently, >> swapping had to be to and from partitions. > Fairly recently, in geological terms, you mean? ISTR setting up a linux > swap file in 1993 or so, sort of an "oops I needed a bigger swap > partition" kind of thing. >
Geez, has it really been that long? I didn't buy 5.0 until 1996 or so, and I distinctly remember being in terror at the prospect of killing a disk by changing all that partitioning. Or maybe it was even earlier when I tried unsuccessfully to make Slackware work? -- John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
