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Re: new pc and swap

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On 10/30/2016 9:15 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le nonidi 9 brumaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit :
>> I once read that it was possible to swap to a named file, rather than a swap
>> partition.
>> Is that possible with Jessie?
>
> Please check: fallocate, mkswap, swapon, and tell us the result.
>
> Regards,
>

As I don't have a functioning Debian system at the moment
     and
As https://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi remains *DOWN* :{
I tried https://manned.org/pkg/debian-jessie as it _appeared_ to 
index all _current_ Debian manpages without success.
There were no hits in 
https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=...
Fell back to the GENERIC https://manned.org/browse/search?q=...
That tells me swap files have existed in the past and they all 
effectively say "Beware. Here dragons have laird here." ;/

Does not answer the question I posed.
Markus' post indicates swap files may be unreliable for 
hibernation, my only likely use.
I've seen posts on multiple fora suggesting hibernation is the 
only use that will absolutely require swap. That routine use does 
not tend to require swap.

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new pc and swap Pol Hallen <deben@fuckaround.org> - 2016-10-30 13:00 +0100
  Re: new pc and swap Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2016-10-30 14:20 +0100
  Re: new pc and swap Markus Grunwald <markus@the-grue.de> - 2016-10-30 15:00 +0100
    Re: new pc and swap Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-30 15:20 +0100
      Re: new pc and swap Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-10-30 16:50 +0100
        Re: new pc and swap Markus Grunwald <markus@the-grue.de> - 2016-10-30 19:30 +0100
      Re: new pc and swap Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-31 10:30 +0100
        Re: new pc and swap Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-10-31 15:00 +0100
          Re: new pc and swap Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-31 19:30 +0100
            Re: new pc and swap Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-31 19:50 +0100
              Re: new pc and swap Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-10-31 20:20 +0100
            Re: new pc and swap <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-31 21:00 +0100
            Re: new pc and swap "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2016-10-31 22:40 +0100
          Re: new pc and swap Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-10-31 20:00 +0100
            Re: new pc and swap Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-11-01 00:10 +0100
              Re: new pc and swap Johann Spies <johann.spies@gmail.com> - 2016-11-01 07:10 +0100
                Re: new pc and swap Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2016-11-01 09:30 +0100
                Re: new pc and swap Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-11-01 11:00 +0100
                Re: new pc and swap Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2016-11-02 01:50 +0100
                Re: new pc and swap Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-11-01 14:10 +0100
                Re: new pc and swap Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-11-01 15:00 +0100
                Re: new pc and swap Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2016-11-01 20:00 +0100
          Re: new pc and swap Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-11-01 00:00 +0100
  Re: new pc and swap Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2016-10-30 17:50 +0100
    Re: new pc and swap Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-10-30 18:20 +0100
  Re: new pc and swap David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-10-30 19:50 +0100

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