Linux without swap

[Stephen]

so if i were to create a small swap partition at the tail end it
wouldnt see it but it would still exist and not break things?

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 22:45 -0700, Stephen wrote:
>> I understand that swap is not as critical anymore with machines now
>> having 2, 4, and even larger amounts of Ram available. but aside from
>> being able to allow a more graceful recovery of a runaway process. how
>> needed is swap in a desktop machine?
>>
>> reason i ask is I'm getting ready to try and cram a 3rd partition on a
>> macbook pro and the EFI boot schema it has can only deal with 4
>> partitions, but mac OSX has 2 of those and i have XP Pro in there as
>> well. and if i include swap space i will be at 5 not the limit of 4.
> ----
> swap can be a file on a regular filesystem instead of just a partition.
> see the man page on mkswap or swapon
>
> also - FWIW - EFI might only see 4 partitions but my experience with
> Macs on OSX is that there are more partitions than you actually see with
> standard Mac tools.
>
> Craig
>
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