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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event
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> I guess the deeper question (although entirely rhetorical AFAIC) is why
> would someone want to swap out to a removable device?

Hot-pluggable swapspace. For various desperate and/or just-in-case
scenarios. One might argue that if you find there you did it wrong in
the first place.