Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Apr 2002 23:59:08 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [swsusp fixes] Re: Linux 2.4.19pre5-ac3 |
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Hi!
> > + > > +You have two ways to use this code. The first one is if you've compiled in > > +sysrq support then you may press Sysrq-D to request suspend. The other way > > +is with a patched SysVinit (my patch is against 2.76 and available at my > > +home page). You might call 'swsusp' or 'shutdown -z <time>'. > > + > > +Either way it saves the state of the machine into active swaps and then > > +reboots. By the next booting the kernel's resuming function is either triggered > > +by swapon -a (which is ought to be in the very early stage of booting) or you > > +may explicitly specify the swap partition/file to resume from with ``resume='' > > +kernel option. If signature is found it loads and restores saved state. If the > > Does it have to be an "active swap partition"? What about systems > without active swap, but space enough for a partition?
There you just make it partition and then mkswap/swapon it. Or did I misunderstand the question? Pavel -- Casualities in World Trade Center: ~3k dead inside the building, cryptography in U.S.A. and free speech in Czech Republic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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