Not a loopback mounted filesystem, but a swap file ? --- dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile count=<whatever>mkswap swapfile swapon swapfile --- You can run a bash script with a vmstat that adds new files with thresholds. But realistically, why not just give 2 GB ? Backing some music you never listen to on a DVD will free up this space. And, if the material is copyrighted, and not licensed (the music), DVDs are easier to disown ! :)
Cheers, Manas On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:35 AM, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 20 Mar 2008 21:22:09 शंतनु महाजन (Shantanoo Mahajan) > wrote: > > How about having loopback mounted file to be used as swap instead of > > whole > > partition? This way you can increase/decrease the swap size. You can > > have > > multiple swaps. And since swap will be used occasionally, it may not > > have > > much impact on performance in desktop environment in most of the cases. > > Care to share an illustration with commands? > > And how it is different that using swapfiles? > > Shridhar > > > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ > Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) > List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail > Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions. >
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