usb stick as swap partition

Fri Oct 15 03:57:53 UTC 2004

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:39:43 -0500, W. Guy Thomas <mrguytx at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> yes, I did just now.
> same thing "device or resource busy".

Well, to qoute Wolgang Gill:

3. It doesn't like constant access (Hence the resourse busy errors).

Maybe the kernel doesn't like devices USB storage devices for swap paritions. 

You might want to try using a swap file instead of a swap partition.
Put the swap file on the usb drive and do a:

 swapon <path to file>

man swapon for details.

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Gideon N. Guillen
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