Re: Swap partition vs swap file

[Bernd Eckenfels]

In article <2cd57c9005070717446dcc52a1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> I guess/hope dd always makes it contiguously.

No, it is creating files by appending just like any other file write. One
could think about a call to create unfragmented files however since this is
not always working best is to create those files young or defragment them
before usage.

Gruss
Bernd
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