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dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

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suspending to hdd on the eeepc

I've read this article on getting suspend to hdd working on the eeepc in ubuntu

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubun … _partition

Two questions from it:
1. Will it work ok on Arch - assuming I get the right packages.
2. If I set it up with a swap partition, do I have to enable the partition in normal use? i.e. 1G of ram is plenty and I don't really need any swap space so can I get it working without actually using the swap space in normal use.

lldmer

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From: Amsterdam

Registered: 2008-05-17

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Re: suspending to hdd on the eeepc

I think suspend would have to work: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … sus_EEE_PC.

Most of the time, when the swap isn't needed, it won't be used. Actually, on my system I've never used my swap yet. You can check this with

[lldmer ~]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4151056    1170332    2980724          0      33440     505592
-/+ buffers/cache:     631300    3519756
Swap:      1959672          0    1959672
[lldmer ~]$

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dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 374

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Re: suspending to hdd on the eeepc

I think suspend would have to work: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … sus_EEE_PC.

Watchout with the link. it could just be my browser but the . on the end is being include in the url so the page it goes to is blank. This one should work:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … sus_EEE_PC

I've been wary about info on that page as it admits it is incomplete and points at the forum for correct info.

Most of the time, when the swap isn't needed, it won't be used. Actually, on my system I've never used my swap yet. You can check this with

[lldmer ~]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4151056    1170332    2980724          0      33440     505592
-/+ buffers/cache:     631300    3519756
Swap:      1959672          0    1959672
[lldmer ~]$

OK, so I can probably get away with having it on and probably never using it. I'll give it a try