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2012-01-04 , 12:00
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Originally Posted by chatumao View Post
john, u sound like u know ur territory.
Not so sure I do, but thanks.

I followed others when everyone was experimenting with their swap files.
My experience was that I that I did not notice any improvements with the swap file on the SD card, I also tried using a script written by vi_, which I modified, to play around with moving the swap file from the eMMC to the SD card and back, the idea was to clean up the swap file and the system would perform better. I didn't notice any appreciable improvements and the system rebooted when the swap file was on the SD card, so I have given up.

Originally Posted by chatumao View Post
can i strip my swap via sd card and still easily remove it with running system to put data with a pc on it,eg?
or would you advice me not to strip if i want to maintain the capability of removing the card?
Have a look at vi_'s script, you could probably re-write it to move the swap file back to the eMMC, remove the card/put your data on it then move the swap file back.
Then again with the swap file on the SD card just try plugging in the USB cable and select Mass storage mode or PC Suite mode and see what happens.

Best of luck