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Partitioning on a multiboot laptop
I have a Fujitsu AH531 laptop with 320GB HDD.
Currently, I have 3 OS installed on it: Win7, Win8, Linux Mint14 and a bulk part for archiving my files.
Now I wanna allocate another part to commence ...
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Partitioning a Linux based system
I am using Linux Mandriva OS. During installation my friend suggested 2GB for the swap partition and the remainder as the root partition. What is the use of providing a separate space for root? ...
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How to create an encrypted swap partition in Debian 6?
I am installing Debian and would like to set up the /swap partition as encrypted.
I am able to select either encrypted physical device or as swap/swap. Are there any methods to create an encrypted ...
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Moving Swapfile in Mac OS X Lion
I had previously consulted this thread when using snow leopard to move all swap to an SSD:
Moving the swapfiles to a dedicated partition in Snow Leopard
The information appears to be out of date at ...
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Resizing swap partition (RHEL 5.x)
The following is what parted print outputs:
(parted) print
Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 26.8GB
Sector size ...
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How to create Swap in Fedora?
I am new about swap and filesystem. Now I encounter a problem:
2G ext4 disk /dev/sda7 # Want to be used as swap in fedora
24G ext4 disk /dev/sda8 # My fedora is built on it without Swap
As ...
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Page file on a separate partition in Windows
I have recently rebuilt my computer (Windows 7 Pro 32bit), and am in the process of paritioning my hard drive. My question is, is it beneficial to make a separate partition for the page file, rather ...
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Made the USB Drive as Swap Partition, Installed it, How to undo it{Ubuntu 10.10}
Well,it was a very stupid thing to do on my part, But I made a 500 GB USB connected Hard Disk as my swap partition (thinking it will be only used during installation) and installed Ubuntu10.10.
I ...
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What file system is swap on Linux
In Linux you can choose things like ext3 and reiserfs for partitions. For the swap partition, you just choose "swap." What file system is this, actually? Can you just create an ext3 partition and make ...
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Changing Linux swap partition
I want to change the swap partition to another partition. Is there a gui that can make this process easier so I don't have to do things like manually editing files?
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Disadvantages of not having a swap partition
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop. Due to space constraint of the SSD, I did not set a swap partition for the OS, and I have 1.5GB of RAM.
There's a warning during installation, but I ...
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How do I make two linux partitions share a swap partition?
I have two Ubuntu linux partitions, and each has its own swap space. Is it possible to make them use the same swap space?
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Moving the swapfiles to a dedicated partition in Snow Leopard
I have been able to move Apple's virtual memory swapfiles to a dedicated partition on my hard drive up until now. The technique I have been using is described in a thread on forums.macosxhints.com.
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