Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)

[R. J. Wysocki]

Hi,

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 15:23, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 February 2006 14:23, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > There are some questions I have while looking at this HOWTO,
> > which I think should be answered there:
> > 
> > Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Suspend-to-disk HOWTO
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > [...]
> > > ./suspend /dev/<your_swap_partition>
> > 
> > Does it need to be mounted (so it possibly gets filled and thereby unusable),
> > or can it be a mkswapped partition?
> 
> A mkswapped one will do.

Sorry, that's not true.  For now the tools only work with mounted swap
partitions, but they use the kernel to allocate free swap pages from them.

Greetings,
Rafael
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