Thread: [Announce][Fremantle] FlopSwap - Swap GUI Management
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sixwheeledbeast is offline sixwheeledbeast
2015-01-05 , 18:53
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Originally Posted by marmistrz View Post
Well, I don't see a reason for autochecking in Flopswap. You can easily schedule the checking script, e.g. with alarmed.
Yep I agree

Originally Posted by Ken-Young View Post
I'm too stupid to figure out how to use FlopSwap. I've read the FlopSwap wiki page, but it does not contain all the info I need. I'm hoping someone can help me out.

Must the SD card swap partitions be numbers 2 and 3?
Not in the latest version, this is just recommended.
In stock Maemo the first partition must be FAT for the card to be used for storage, this is why the partitions 2/3 are recommended.
Also as mentioned you may get issues with windows not mounting the card (not an issue for some I know)
They can be anywhere on the card, they are found at boot time using blkid.

Originally Posted by Ken-Young View Post
Must the SD card swap partitions be exactly 800 MBytes in size? Will slightly larger partitions work?
No, this is just the recommended size.

Originally Posted by Ken-Young View Post
Must one build a file system on the swap partitions? If so, will ext3 work?
No, they must be linux-swap partitions.

Originally Posted by Ken-Young View Post
Must one do something to make FlopSwap notice the new SD card partitions, or to mark the new partitions as swap partitions for the OS?
No, the flopswap will setup all the correct settings for your version of upstart. The upstart file can be removed using the "Use External swap on boot" option, however, this is checked as default.

If you could point me to the parts of the wiki you found unhelpful I can fix them for you. I thought I covered most bits in the Q&A section.

Originally Posted by Ken-Young View Post
Thanks very much! That was the step I was missing. I'm a happy FlopSwap user now.
Happy Flopswaping!
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