Hi!
> > Suspend-to-disk HOWTO
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Copyright (C) 2006 Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
> >
> >
> > You'll need /dev/snapshot for these to work:
> >
> > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 231 Jan 13 21:21 /dev/snapshot
> > Then compile userspace tools in usual way. You'll need an -mm kernel
> > for now. To suspend-to-disk, run
I actually added -mm warning here.
> > ./suspend /dev/<your_swap_partition>
> >
> > . (There should be just one, for now.) Suspend is easy, resume is
> > slightly harder. Resume application has to be ran without any
> > filesystems mounted rw, and without any journalling filesystems
> > mounted at all, preferably from initrd (but read-only ext2 should do
> > the trick, too). Resume is then as easy as running
> >
> > ./resume /dev/<your_swap_partition>
> >
> > . You probably want to create script that attempts to resume with
> > above command, and if that fails, fall back to init.
>
> If it's run fron an initrd, it'll fall back automatically. Also you can set
> the name of the resume partition in the header file swsusp.h and
> you'll be able to use the tools without any command line
> parameters (useful if you want to start resume from an initrd).
I know a little about initrd. I've just commited HOWTO file, can you
edit it to describe that?
Pavel
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