Questions re swap and hibernate interaction on 8 gig machine

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 01:21:05PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote

> Exactly.  When I tried to do it, hibernating to a swap file failed.  I'm 
> sure I did find documentation on that at some point.  I keep an eye out to 
> see if the limitation has been fixed.

  On my new system running kernel linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r7

  make menuconfig
    Power management and ACPI options  --->
      [*] Hibernation (aka 'suspend to disk')
      (/dev/sda6) Default resume partition

  There is no option to specify a file instead.  BTW, my layout is...

# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9ba53901

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1      121601   976760001    5  Extended
/dev/sda5               1          33      265009+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6              34        1209     9446188+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7            1210      121601   967048708+  83  Linux

# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5               256634     32281    211103  14% /
udev                     10240       116     10124   2% /dev
/dev/sda7            967019188   2143428 964875760   1% /home
shm                    3930960         0   3930960   0% /dev/shm


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