bug reports regarding users running out of disk space

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 11:44 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> ti, 2009-04-14 kello 04:35 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan kirjoitti:
> > On Tuesday 14 April 2009 4:27:05 am Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > On of the things I'm strongly thinking of proposing for Karmic is to
> > > switch to having /tmp on a tmpfs, as long as the user has a swap *file*
> > > rather than a partition.
> > 
> > Is there an option for this in the installer somewhere?
> 
> If I have understood things correctly, swap files are now as efficient
> as swap partitions. Many new laptops and desktops come with several
> gigabytes of RAM, meaning that swapping is often rare. "Twice the size
> of RAM" is a common default for swap partition size, and that means that
> there's several gigabytes of disk space that is essentially unused.
> While disks have also grown a lot, it's still gigabytes of unused space:
> waste not, want not.
> 
> In this circumstance, I think it'd be a good idea for the karmic
> installer to switch to using swap files by default, requiring manual
> partitioning if the user wants swap partitions.
> 
> Or perhaps I'm completely misunderstanding things?
> 
> 
Actually doing that would completely break hibernation for new users.
There is a way to configure uswsusp to use a swap file, but it involves
figuring out the offset of the file on the disk or something of that
sort. As for the default method which is used, I don't think a swap file
is even supported at all.
-- 
Regards,
Chow Loong Jin
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