LXDE - Is swap space needed?

[gseaman]

The installer and boot scripts expect to find a swap partition so to be safe I would create one even if it was a tiny one like 128mb.

Is it possible to trick or modify these scripts to use a swap file? I created a swap partition on a thumb drive to get openbox mini installed on a low memory machine. It would have been much easier to create and a delete a swap file on the thumb drive, if it would work.

Galen

I never thought about creating a swap partition to a thumb drive. How low in memory is the machine you installed to ?

This is the 128mb machine with 4mb shared video memory that I've been installing ob-mini to. The flash drive allows for swap while draklive-install and diskdrake get everything setup to install.

Galen

[--Ed--]

Hi Patrick013,

The CPU is a 900Mhz Celeron. I think you may be right about the speed of the SSD. From initial power up to when the login prompt appears is almost a minute. I have a 8G class 6 SD flash. would I be better off with the OS on it than the SSD?

[Yankee]

Hi Patrick013,

The CPU is a 900Mhz Celeron. I think you may be right about the speed of the SSD. From initial power up to when the login prompt appears is almost a minute. I have a 8G class 6 SD flash. would I be better off with the OS on it than the SSD?

Well the 8gb would give you more headroom.  Speed about the same, just medium.
They never should have sold those without a 20gb SSD so we have to juggle a flash
drive or portable hard drive if we upgrade and need more headroom then.  Experiment
with the 8gb flash, it's fine here for LXDE and a browser.  Use the 4gb for documents, etc..
Or use the 4gb for system backup at high compression just to be safe.


Regards,

Patrick013

[Yankee]

Ed,

I didn't know that was not a flash drive.  That's usually used for cameras and secondly for
storage.  Very rarely for operating system, but you probably could run SystemRescueCD
or a second LINUX for backup from it once in awhile.  A portable hard drive is the best then
expanding the internal SSD.  I'm having a little trouble with my flash drive today.  I found a
program that crashes on it but not on a portable hard drive. 

Live and learn,

Patrick013