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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Swap which option is better Post 302551995 by Corona688 on Thursday 1st of September 2011 10:04:07 AM
Old 09-01-2011
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Originally Posted by kopper
got it

right now swap is in /dev/sda1
and / is /dev/sda2 same LUN from Storage.

so creating a file under / like /SwapFile is the same thing and safer as you say
sda1 and sda2 are on the same disk. You aren't gaining anything by putting it on sda1 vs sda2, just put it where you have lots of available space...
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partclone.restore(8)					      System Manager's Manual					      partclone.restore(8)

NAME
partclone.restore - The utility to restore an etx2/ext3 partition. SYNOPSIS
partclone.restore [options]... [MODE] [SOURCE FILE] [OUTPUT FILE] DESCRIPTION
partclone.restore is a part of Partclone project. Partclone is a project like the well-known backup utility "Partition Image" a.k.a par- timage. Partclone provide utilities to back up used blocks and design for higher compatibility of the file system using supported library like e2fslibs. OPTIONS
-o, --output FILE Output FILE -O --overwrite FILE Output FILE, overwriting if exists --restore_row_file create special raw file for loop device -s, --source FILE Source FILE -L, --logfile FILE Log FILE -dX, --debug=X Set the debug level to X = [0|1|2] -C, --no_check Don't check device size and free space -X, --dialog Output message as Dialog Format -I, --ignore_fschk Ignore filesystem check --ignore_crc Ignore crc check error -F, --force Force progress -f, --UI-fresh Fresh times of progress -m, --max_block_cache The used block will be cache until max number -q, --quiet Disable progress message -v, --version Display partclone version -h, --help Display this help Examples: restore /dev/hda1 from hda1.img and display debug information. partclone.restore -d -s hda1.img -o /dev/hda1 restore image from clonezilla(split, gzip,) with stdin source cat sda1.ext3-ptcl-img.gz.a* > gunzip -c | partclone.restore -d -s - -o /dev/sda1 restore raw image from partclone.dd partclone.dd -d -c -s /dev/sda1 -o - | partclone.restore -d -s - -o /dev/sdb1 REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <thomas@nchc.org.tw> SUPPORT
You can get support at http://partclone.org AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Tsai <thomas@nchc.org.tw> partclone 0.2.48 Nov 2007 partclone.restore(8)
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