On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, synapse wrote:

> swap space *must* be on the same drive as the root partition, but i think
> there's a way to get around that by some patch or another kernel - i am not
> sure, never needed to do that. someone else probably knows.

Actually, this restriction only matters if you're using a GENERIC kernel,
or one compile with the GENERIC option.  Custom kernels can have swap on
whatever partition(s) you want.

> As a general rule, you should put twice as much swapspace on your drive as
> ram (i.e., 5MB RAM x 2 = 10MB swap space) but you might want more because
> that is indeed a small amount of RAM. this is a general rule, too. i have
> 20MB ram and 32MB swap, for example, which isn't following any rules :)

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