usb flash drive as swap in linux

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Technomage wrote:

> I have made the required changes to fstab in order to use a 128 meg USB 
> device.
> 
> only problem I seem to have is that even though the modules are loaded, it 
> will not initialize as swap space unless I issue a swapon -a from root after 
> startup.
> 
> some help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> system is debian kernel 2.6.8-2-386 running on a compaq presario laptop.

Have a look at your /etc/rcS.d/ scripts to see when your swap is mounted.

Some (All?) Debian systems do it twice (but maybe still before your flash 
disk is available).

As a workaround, add a new rc?.d script to run your swapon -a after your 
new device is available.

I understand that flash disks do not like a lot of writing. Maybe use as a 
swap is a bad idea (since it could soon fail). Anyone else have experience 
with this? (How soon?)

 Jeremy C. Reed

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