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 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss