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Re: deleting swap files

A more scenic but less techy way to have the swap drive mount is to
literally copy and paste the script /System/Library/StartupItems/Disks/Disks
just before the swap section in the /etc/rc. It's not optimal, but it's
easier, IMHO.

on 6/24/01 6:44 PM, Mark Weaver at email@hidden wrote:

> Here is an article on it:
> http://www.ResExcellence.com/hack_html_01/06-01-01.shtml
>
> On Sunday, June 24, 2001, at 08:49 PM, Andre John Mas wrote:
>
>> Surely with this approach you end up seeing the swap volume mounted?
>>
>> Out of interest what sort of performance difference is there between a
>> partition with a 'swap' filesystem and a dedicited partition for the
>> swap files. Theoretically the former would be better as it has one
>> less layer of calls to go through. If anyone has been able to
>> compare the two approaches, I would be interested in knowing.
>
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> Mark Weaver
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