Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)

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Hi,

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 14:23, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> There are some questions I have while looking at this HOWTO,
> which I think should be answered there:
> 
> Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Suspend-to-disk HOWTO
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> [...]
> > ./suspend /dev/<your_swap_partition>
> 
> Does it need to be mounted (so it possibly gets filled and thereby unusable),
> or can it be a mkswapped partition?

A mkswapped one will do.  Actually a mounted one will do either and the data
on it won't get damaged.

> Can it even be a swap-file?

No.

> Probably not, unless you want to resume by ro-nojournalreplay-mounting the
> corresponding partition. 
> 
> How big does it have to be, compared to the RAM? As big + n? Bigger? BIGGER?

May be smaller.  You'll need at most 1/2 of your RAM size of free space on it.

I'll put the answers in the howto, thanks for the hint.

Greetings,
Rafael
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