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Robert Love: No hard drive means no swap file [via Tim Bray]

I don’t follow.  I don’t have a hard drive on my 4GB EEE netbook, yet I have a swap file:

Disk /dev/sda: 4034 MB, 4034838528 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 490 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x892d892d

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         461     3702951   83  Linux
/dev/sda2             462         490      232942+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5             462         490      232911   82  Linux swap / Solaris

I see no reason why a 16GB iPod couldn’t have a swap file.