multiple swap partitions

[Michael Yep]

Yes I am running one 1024M on hda , and one 1024M on hdb

At 12:15 PM 1/22/2005, you wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:37:15 -0800, Gerhard Magnus
><magnus at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> > Does linux/fedora 3 allow for multiple swap partitions?  Can I define a
> > second one on my other hard drive?
>
>Yes, I believe this should work just fine.  In fact, I think it can
>possibly improve the performance of swapping since you can use both
>disks (same concept as some of the RAID modes).  I think you have to
>set the priorities (pri=x) to be the same in fstab in the options
>section.  It has been a while since I have looked at this stuff.
>Google knows a lot about it : ).  Here is one site that I found by
>searching for "swap partition priority linux" (no quotes):
>http://www.fiveanddime.net/ss/swap.htm
>
>Jonathan
>
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Michael Yep
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