usb stick as swap partition

[W. Guy Thomas]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 21:28, Gideon N. Guillen wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:02:42 -0500, W. Guy Thomas <mrguytx at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> > I have researched this but it seems no one wants to do this.
> > Is it a bad idea?
> > I think it would be better than my little hard drive churning on this
> > old laptop.
> > A full 128MB stick.
> > Fedora sees the stick, I create a partition in fdisk of type 82.
> > I use
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=1024 count=131000
> 
> Well, have you used this usb stick for other stuff? If the answer is
> no, well, it's possible that you have a memory stick that uses the
> entire block dvice, not partitions, like /dev/sda instead of
> /dev/sda1.
> 
> Anyway, as the other poster said, this is not recommended. Even if
> your hard disk will be free, this will slow down you computer even
> more as your system will be put to a state where the kernel has to
> finish writing to virtual memory before handing over cpu/resources
> again to processes.

I haven't used it for anything except to format it as vfat and write to
it to make sure it works.

Surely we can at least give it a try?
I have tried all the procedures I can find.
If anyone could pick up on where I left off and spot what I'm missing
I'd be most grateful.
I have done my research and am not asking for my hand to be held, just
some pointers as to what I might have missed please?

thanks.

G