DSL Embedded :: Size of partitions

Ah, that would explain it - the usb flash. Having a swap partition on your usb flash drive would greatly reduce its life afaik...

No hard drive attached to that computer?

Yes it does have a hard drive in it running Fedora Core 4. I think it's a 40 giger.
Chris.

Can you do this:

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swapon -a && free

and paste what appeared to the screen.

I think that the Fedora installion has a swap space that you can also use for DSL.

This is what happens in DSL:

dsl@box:~$ swapon -a && free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 126736 81648 45088 0 2116
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 126736 81648 45088
dsl@box:~$

Thanks,

Chris.

Actually, DSL upon boot will automatically use any swap partitions it can find.

If you have some free space, etc. you could make a swapfile or swap partition on your hard drive. You could check the hdd's partition table to see what's there.

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