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Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

From	Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}
Date	2019-06-17 00:30 +0200
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On Sun, Jun 16, 2019, 2:17 PM Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:

>
> I'm not experimenting with the installation process, but with what I
> want the result to be.
>

Those are 2 sides of the same coin.

> >    Does  top  show much use of swap anyway?)
>
> Not a parameter of my experiment's protocol.
> As I do not "know" how much swap space I require, I provide

Once again you contradict yourself. Sentence 1 states that you are
experimenting  but Sentence 2 complains that you don't know.

swap space
> based on conservative estimates of _typical_ requirements. That
> logically leads to my preference for a SINGLE large swap vs multiple
> small swap areas. *YMMV* !!!
>
> I can't parse that.
>

You said you were going to look into fstab. That's how you parse that :-)

> > You've been flogging this dead horse for at least seven years now.
>
> Horse ain't dead.
>

"It's dead Jim" - Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek

> No
> require my failures to be deterministic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>

That was proven impossible in the 1930s by Alonzo Church and Alan Turing.
:-)

VM's are intrinsically unknown quantities.
>

Never, ever say that to Linus Torvalds.
Or Lennart Poettering.
:-)

>

Thread

Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-14 13:20 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-06-14 13:30 +0200
    Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-14 13:50 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2019-06-14 13:30 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-06-14 13:30 +0200
    Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-14 14:00 +0200
      Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-14 19:50 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-14 13:30 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-06-14 14:40 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> - 2019-06-14 18:10 +0200
  Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-06-14 20:20 +0200
  Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration"  {wrong word?} file} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-15 15:20 +0200
    Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-15 16:30 +0200
      Re: Intended question Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-06-15 21:20 +0200
        Re: Intended question Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-15 21:30 +0200
      Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-15 21:30 +0200
    Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-16 18:10 +0200
      Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-16 21:20 +0200
        Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-06-16 21:40 +0200
        Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-17 00:30 +0200
        Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-17 04:10 +0200
          The use of VMs in experimentation schenarios (Was: Re: Intended          question - was...) Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2019-06-17 23:00 +0200
            Re: The use of VMs in experimentation schenarios (Was: Re: Intended  question - was...) Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-17 23:10 +0200
          Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-17 23:50 +0200
        Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-06-17 05:00 +0200
          Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-17 20:40 +0200
          Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian  "configuration" {wrong word?} file} David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-18 18:20 +0200
            Re: Intended question Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-20 20:10 +0200
              Re: Intended question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-21 04:40 +0200
  Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong  word?} file] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-15 15:40 +0200
    Re: Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration"  {wrong word?} file] songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-06-15 22:50 +0200
      Re: Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration"  {wrong word?} file] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-06-16 11:50 +0200
    Re: Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file] Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-06-16 13:30 +0200
    Re: Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration"  {wrong word?} file] Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-06-17 15:20 +0200

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