>From Jeff Gutierez:
> Question for Mr. Manalastas:
> - Where do the swap partition, and the /tmp directory reside physically?
> I can imagine it would be in the local FS, but considering how do you
> configure it? swap turned off?
>From Doc Mana:
> There is no swap, since the idea is to have a usable system without
> installing. When the user finds the need for swap, then he must
> mount the Windows partition, then dd/mkswap/swapon a swap file.
It is possible to create a temporary swap file without having to partition
the drive with the dd (direct disk ?) command.
As Doc Mana pointed out in our class,
# dd if=/dev/zero of=<name of swap file> bs=1K count=<size>
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