12-21-2014, 12:58 AM
Your welcome Jerry.
Thanks Wirezfree.
Re: Hibernation & Swap -- whether hibernating of not, only one Swap partition is needed. Each Linux distro installed will use it. Size of Swap needs to be at least equal to amount of RAM on computer for hibernation to work right. If you don't use hibernation, then can safely make Swap smaller than that.
(12-20-2014, 10:52 PM)Wirezfree link Wrote: Really excellent How To...
Good time for a question/clarification.?
I have read, but not tried it...
If you multi boot, and you don't need to Hibernate(to swap)
You can just use the same swap partition across the installs.?
(may save a little disk space/config time)
Dave
Thanks Wirezfree.
Re: Hibernation & Swap -- whether hibernating of not, only one Swap partition is needed. Each Linux distro installed will use it. Size of Swap needs to be at least equal to amount of RAM on computer for hibernation to work right. If you don't use hibernation, then can safely make Swap smaller than that.
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