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On Thursday 01 July 2010 23:50:56 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:46:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > That will never work in a zillion years for all the good reasons |
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> > mentioned elsewhere in this thread. |
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> > You MUST disable swap THEN remove the device. This sequence is |
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> > inviolate. |
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> You could use a udev rule to enable the swap, but it has to be removed |
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> manually. But it does raise the question of why you would want swap on a |
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> USB stick in the first place. It must be slower than hard disk swap, and |
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> will wear out the flash memory. Instead of all this messing around, just |
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> increase the size of your swap partition, or add another one. |
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Or deal with the actual underlying issue which is probably |
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"get more RAM" |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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