Re: Swap partition vs swap file

Bernd Eckenfels
2005-07-10T21:44:32Z

In article <20050710125438.GA17784@animx.eu.org> you wrote:
> So are you saying that if I create a swap partition it's best to use dd to
> zero it out before mkswap?

Nope I did not. However I dont know of any other shell tool which can do it
that easyly.

> As far as portable, we're talking about linux, portability is not an issue
> in this case.

Portability across Filesystems.

Gruss
Bernd