I adampyre,
if i've well understood your problem, you can get what you want by simply setting a pertinent "swap priority" ['-p' parameter] on the used swap devices. In example, to get the usb...
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I adampyre,
if i've well understood your problem, you can get what you want by simply setting a pertinent "swap priority" ['-p' parameter] on the used swap devices. In example, to get the usb...
Well, I am absolutely not an expert of linux swap management, but I will try to give you some answers while hoping that a "swap guru" will join the thread...
So
1) if you swapoff the usb...
May the ram be with you :cool:
"swapoff /dev/sda1", assuming /dev/sda1 is the correct device for your pen drive
Max
I think you could add the swap entry to fstab, but this implies that you should have your pen drive already connected at boot time. If you are working on a desktop, this is fine, but with a laptop I...
Hi, Treviño
you are right. Specifically, the usb storage writing cycles are limited, not the reading ones. However, I'm still incline to consider usb mass storages as a cheap solution to strict...
even if you have a small pen drive, you can still take some advantage from usb swapping: whenever usb space finishes, the system will automatically activate the "secondary" standard hd swap declared...
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Hi everybody,
by following this little tutorial you'll be able to use a USB pen prive as an additional swap. As a result, the pen drive will...
I'm am experiencing the same problem, but at the moment I don'tknow how to fix that...
However, I'm working on it... if i find a solution I'll post on this thread
Happy coding
Max
Hi everybody,
I'm posting a modification of a simple script originally coded by 'jferrando'
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=171958&highlight=cifs
devoted to automatically umount cifs...