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Originally Posted by epz View Post
I know the N900 has 256megs 768megs swap and 32gigs of storage.

Reading the reports im not clear if the swap is just a partition on the 32gig storage or a separate type of (hopefully) storage.

Whenever I setup a linux distro I much prefer to dynamically add the swap i need it by building a number of big empty file on / and formatting/mounting them as swap
Keeping the swap on the large memory card means less overall wear, as the writes will be spread across the whole card.
 

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