boot partitions
Are these really necessary? I never had problems without one but I only have Linux on my box and no other users.
How about Swapfiles instead of a swap partition? Does this really work?
Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
Taipei Taiwan
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Quoted 3 lines · S. Barret Dolph
Are these really necessary? I never had problems without one but I only have Linux on my box and no other users.
no
usually it's better to have a separate boot partition in a multiuser environment
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How about Swapfiles instead of a swap partition? Does this really work?
yes
you can even have a combination of swap files and swap partitions
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Cordially,
S. Barret Dolph
Taipei Taiwan
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