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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] another openoffice build failure
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:36:15
Message-Id: 7573e9640609021626m4ebbb138q13fdfc064e4da93e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] another openoffice build failure by Lord Sauron
1 On 9/2/06, Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > A cheap way to get more memory:
3 >
4 > o wipe a USB key clean (back it up though!)
5 > o mkspwap /dev/sda1 or whereever your usb memory stick is
6 > o swapon all
7
8 It had better be a disposable key, as flash memory is only good for so
9 many writes before it fails....better (and faster) would be to add a
10 swap file.
11
12 -Richard
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