advice on partitioning

[Jim Richardson]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 14:12 +0200, Bjørn Ingmar Berg wrote:
> On 13/10/05, 'Forum Post <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> > Let the Ubuntu installer do what it wants to do. There's no reason
> > anymore to have a lot of different partitions.
> 
> Not even a swap-partition?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bjørn Ingmar Berg
> 

Linux will happily use swapfiles, and apparantly, with the 2.6 kernel,
there's no performance penalty in normal use. But I use a swap partition
since I can use that with swsusp2. I don't think swsusp will work with a
swapfile. 


-- 
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
The race isn't always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, But
it's the safest way to bet.
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