Re: Fix SWSUSP & !SWAP

Andrew Morton
2003-04-24T00:28:40Z

"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> That may be simple for you, but for lots of users, adding a partition
> (to a ususally full disk drive) isn't simple. It means backups,
> shrink a filesystem, shrink a partition, add a partition, and run
> mkswap on it. Yes, the latter 2 are simple, but the former ones
> are not.

Yeah. swsusp is pretty much the only reason why you would want to have a
swap partition at all in a 2.5/2.6 kernel.