Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.) | Date | Wed, 8 Feb 2006 15:23:14 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 14:23, Bodo Eggert wrote: > There are some questions I have while looking at this HOWTO, > which I think should be answered there: > > Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > Suspend-to-disk HOWTO > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > [...] > > ./suspend /dev/<your_swap_partition> > > Does it need to be mounted (so it possibly gets filled and thereby unusable), > or can it be a mkswapped partition?
A mkswapped one will do. Actually a mounted one will do either and the data on it won't get damaged.
> Can it even be a swap-file?
No.
> Probably not, unless you want to resume by ro-nojournalreplay-mounting the > corresponding partition. > > How big does it have to be, compared to the RAM? As big + n? Bigger? BIGGER?
May be smaller. You'll need at most 1/2 of your RAM size of free space on it.
I'll put the answers in the howto, thanks for the hint.
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