[ale] On swap space (was Re: who is eating my drive)

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The Don Lachlan wrote:
> On 05/31/2011 02:28 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>> I have never heard anything that says swap can?t be on a primary disk
>> partition and am pretty sure I?ve done that in the past. However, these
> 
> In a physical system, swap should be a primary partition...
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another option (as of kernel 2.6) would be the use of a swapfile. 
unless it's badly fragmented it'll have the same reliability and speed 
as a physical swap partition.