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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: Hibernation partition at Linux
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 00:13:14 +0200
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On Thursday 20 May 2010, H.Christ-T.Strieder@t-online.de wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> in line with an composition we would need more information about the
> partition structure and content that is used when Linux does hibernation
> (suspend to disk). Does anybody have a tip where we can get documentation
> on this?

It has to be a normal swap partition or a swap file located on a regular
parition (see Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt in the kernel
tree for some information about how swap files are used).

Thanks,
Rafael