[SunRescue] Changing swap devices

James Lockwood james at foonly.com
Sun Mar 26 14:54:46 CST 2000


5On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Paul Khoury wrote:

> How would one change swap devices?  I have swap on my main drive, but I put in
> an old Maxtor LXT213 I'd like to use solely for swap (since I heard it's better to have
> swap on a seperate drive).

Having swap on a separate spindle is good.  Having swap on a slow disk is
bad.  If your other drive is noticably faster then moving swap onto this
drive may slow you down.

-James







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