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Last edited by norswap (2010-03-28 10:45:01)
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noatime on the swap partition? is there such an option? what would it do? there are no files there.
otherwise the noatime should be deprecated long ago, it just became a burden, without much needed functionality. i heard mutt uses it, dont know otherwise. the frist thing i do after install is turn on the noatime option in fstab.
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there are no files there.
How are "things" stored on the swap file, then ? I come from Windows where the rough equivalent is the pagefile, which is as the name indicate, a file.
And what about /boot ?
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Think of the swap partition as the _contents_ of the swapfile in windows. it is the memory contents of applications not needed for the moment.
/boot is just a directory mounted in antother partition, so setting noatime does have its justice there. I would set noatime especially on frequently used partitions, and of cours usb pendrives which wear out relatively quickly.
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It is possible to have your swap in a file rather than a partition. In such a case, noatime may be preferred. However, you may rather turn on noatime for all the files in a partition instead of just selected files.
Do note, swap as a partition is faster than swap as a file, noatime or not.
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