[LinuxUsers] encrypted partition?

[Jeff Lasman]

On Monday 08 December 2008 06:45 pm, Peter Manis wrote:

> Forgot about swap.  I would maybe avoid using a file swap all
> together and use tmpfs or a standard ramdisk for your swap.  I have
> heard that turning off swap all together isn't the best solution so
> using a tmpfs or ramdisk basically eliminates on disk swap files, but
> still makes the system believe it is there.  This is because
> applications will still prefer to swap vs freeing system cache.  So I
> would buy more ram and go that route, unless you already have enough
> ram.

Two gig of RAM, two 1G sticks. MB has only two slots so if I want to go 
to 4G I'd have to buy all new RAM, not that expensive, but I don't like 
wasting perfectly good RAM <smile>.

So what's wrong with a swap file on the encrypted partition?  The speed?

Or a separate encrypted swap file (can I do that with what you call the 
ubuntu method?

Thanks.

Jeff
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