[kwlug-disc] HDD Partition & swap space

[unsolicited]

In Linux, unless you do some tricks, by definition all swap space is on 
its own partition.

Even in windows I recommend it - decreases fragmentation everywhere 
else. I make it a bit bigger and point tmp at it too, for the same reasons.

On 14-07-30 03:27 PM, John Johnson wrote:
> On 2014-07-30 14:07, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote: (in another thread)
>> Side note: one of my main gripes ...
>>
>> ... when it comes to hard disks, they can be partitioned space wise ...
> Using the above as both a gripe and question: In the old days (w/Unix &
> with smaller HDDs) I used to partition a hard disk such that a partition
> was reserved exclusively for a swap space. The partition was mapped
> accordingly, i.e. to the swap space in the OS.
>
> The idea was to isolate the swap space from application data which could
> grow over time. This avoided a potential system failure if the
> application data grows to a point where the OS is impacted by the lack
> of swap space.
>
> This worked well even if there was only one physical HDD.
>
> It has been a long time (decades) since I set up systems this way.
>
> Is this still possible / recommended / practiced with Linux?
>
> I looked for the ability to the same in the other popular OS and could
> not find a way to map the swap space to a separate partition.
>
> OT (on my own post): While working on some custom code on another
> consultant's installation, I was running into HDD filesystem errors that
> presented problems to my work. And fsck would not run because there was
> only one HDD and fsck wanted a separate swap space.
>
> sysadm was not my responsibility, nor did I want that responsibility.
>
> I traveled to the site with a blank 1.2 Mbyte floppy which I temporarily
> mounted as a volume for use by fsck. When the fsck was done I dismounted
> the volume and packed my 'magic disk' away. I could then work on my code
> changes.
>
> JohnJ
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