On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 01:17:05PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> I want to make use of my floppy disk; thus I wish to use it as my swap space.
> How many bytes
>
> I was wondering.... a flopy drive is very much useless. Why not use it as the
> swap space? If we were going to how many bytes/blocks are in a floppy?
I don't think this is wise. Mostly you don't need swap much these days.
When you *do* need swap, having it on floppy would bring your system to
its knees.
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