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SubjectRe: magical swap
> > lilo:~# swapon -a
> > lilo:~# cat /proc/swaps
> > Filename Type Size Used Priority
> > /swap file 65532 0 -3
> > /swap file 65532 0 -4
> [...]
>
> You should not do that while you are root. However, I made a kernel patch to
> check this, and it should get included before 2.2 is out.

Yep, just a warning to debian hamm users: The default init scripts like
to do a swapon -a twice during startup, once at the very begining and
again after everything is mounted. Unless are obscenely low on ram, I
would recommend commenting out the first one in /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh

Toodles

- Chris
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