http://neil.franklin.ch/Projects/dphys-swapfile/README author Neil Franklin, last modification 2006.12.22 This text (and all dphys-swapfile) copyright ETH Zuerich Physics Departement use under either modified/non-advertising BSD or GPL license Introduction to dphys-swapfile setup/mount script Aim This program is aimed at using an automatically installed and RAM size dependantly (re-)sized swap file instead of an fixed size (from partitioning) swap partition. Install the system without an swap partition and then install and run this. Preconditions This program should work on any Linux system. It is unlikely to be portable to any non-Linux without lots of work (near rewrite). Tools This project has produced an script for (re-)creating an swap file on every boot, and then mounting it, also unmounting it on shutdown, and offering removal of the swap file when not needed any longer. Code This project is fully open source. Documentation gets written together with the code. Everything I write is immediately available for download. Current version is what I am working on, if I write a bug you crash the next day. Older stable versions are archived as Milestones. State Working package, in productive use on over 100 machines. Installation There is a installation guide at: http://neil.franklin.ch/Projects/dphys-swapfile/INSTALL Questions There is a FAQ file at: http://neil.franklin.ch/Projects/dphys-swapfile/FAQ
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[Official Debian packaging moved to git.debian.org] Debian Packaging for dphys-swapfile — a Tool to Autogenerate and Use a Swap File
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