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Originally Posted by matthewg42
Swap partitions are a little faster, but you have to have some unpartitioned space on your disks to add another swap partition.
It is also more difficult to change the amount of space used for swap if you are using swap partitions, since it requires a change in partitioning on the disk.
So it depends - which is more important for you - a small increase in speed, or flexibility?
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Thanks Mathew and Mr.c ,
[root@oracle ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 73.3 GB, 73372631040 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8920 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 3 3201 25695967+ 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 4225 8920 37720620 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 3202 4224 8217247+ 82 Linux swap
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sda: 293.6 GB, 293630353408 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 35698 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 35698 286744153+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1 12450 100004562 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 12451 24900 100004593+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 24901 35698 86734903+ 83 Linux
I dont think I have unpartitioned space here , so the only option is to create a swap file ?.. Right ?.. I created swap file many times, but I feel that the system is slow after doin this ?..
Any comments ?
Yusuf