Linux without swap

[Craig White]

I think that's the case but check it for yourself. Boot a Linux disk and
do fdisk -l /dev/something_like_scdisk1

I forgot the actual designations that Macintosh will use

Craig

On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 23:18 -0700, Stephen wrote:
> 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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