avoid swapfile building

vasilii · May 27, 2002, 11:04am

Hi,

i have i little hard disk.
can i avoid swapfile building?

Thanks,
vasilii

system · May 30, 2002, 2:29pm

i have i little hard disk.
can i avoid swapfile building?

I don’t think you can avoid having the install process build this file,
but you can truncate it quite safely after the install. Simply use the
following command (as root), you only need to do this once.

/.swapfile

That will truncate the file to zero bytes.

Cheers,
Camz.