Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: Swap partition vs swap file | Date | Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:22:29 +0200 |
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In article <2cd57c9005070717446dcc52a1@mail.gmail.com> 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.
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