On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:14:19AM -0400, John Kennedy wrote:
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 06:41:06PM +0800, Tang Jianwei wrote:
I tried to create some swap files in /dev directory for my desktop. the dd and mkswap were ok. but when I try to swapon it, i get this:
# swapon /dev/myswap swapon: /dev/myswap: Invalid argument
but when I mv the file to some other directory like /mnt or /, the swapon works.
could sb. tell me why?
Well, /dev is *not* a good place for anything but device files.
/dev is not a real directory for data files.
<snip> Um, er, what do you mean about it not being a "real" directory?
markI would say he means "real" as exists on a hard drive like /home of /var as opposed to "virtual" as exists in RAM like /proc. John
Yup.
////jerry
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