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Old 8th August 2008
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Originally Posted by gosha View Post
if I swap to file, will the system use both my swap partition and the file or only the file?
As I mentioned above, during dump to swap, the system will dump to available swap space. On boot, swap space in a file will not be available to savecore(8), so if it dumps any data to swap space assigned to a file, the dump will be lost.
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