Using a swap file instead of a swap partition in linux
Historically linux distributions have created a dedicated partition to be used as swap space and while this does come with some advantages there are other […]
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Blast from the Past: Of filesystems and partitions
This post was originally published on August 25, 2009. The original can be found here. Following from my last post about finalizing all of those […]
Of filesystems and partitions
For a Windows or Mac user the filesystem is something they will probably never think about in their daily computing adventures. That is mostly because there really isn’t a choice in the matter. As a Windows user the only time I actually have to worry about the filesystem is when I’m formatting a USB drive. For my hard drives the choices are NTFS, NTFS, and.. oh yeah NTFS. My earliest recollection of what a filesystem is happened when my Windows 98 machine had crashed and I had to wait while the machine forced a filesystem check on the next start up. More recently FAT32 has gotten in my way with it’s 4GB file size limitation.