From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QcoEU-0001Yq-4b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:38:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74BF21C018; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 00:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478F21C018 for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 00:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0692D209A6 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 20:37:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:37:26 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:date:in-reply-to:references:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:mime-version; s=smtpout; bh=UIfO7WUCw+u7Sus7G68Y6e+5XkI=; b=Y16ZBZzQiFqkrt3gkxgGLP7C3BcP99rHEcPh6RTUjl/KXaAJNnB8m8Skyfy8nZtRLG4NaEwZB63aXPcAnO/+gTqSQ9bOn8YmJE8iuk6RUR5lBJNmmHknSJRwyj2DHaBk2pI3Q73ieV+P1wLyFjAbI1x98cWlRk6uqx8iewgfuAY= X-Sasl-enc: k9CpyRRbXIX+T+L1tNfbEXTI8EQesDs3mjAp3tlAT9th 1309567045 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-174-109-037-078.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.37.78]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A964D400DAB for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 20:37:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:37:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wrg1o7j0.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87k4cdcz55.fsf@newsguy.com> <4E029765.9060903@gmail.com> <1308795285.71397.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4E02C27C.9010808@gmail.com> <1308827720.71397.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4E036A80.2040802@gmail.com> <1308847923.3979.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1309021857.1913810.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1309222010.86060.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1309266479.110891.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1309273058.135624.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1309277984.135624.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <871uyaqahh.fsf@newsguy.com> <1309535743.3581.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87liwiosuk.fsf@newsguy.com> <1309543009.3581.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <871uy9q0kg.fsf@newsguy.com> <1309550567.3581.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87wrg1o7j0.fsf@newsguy.com> Face: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1309567045.3581.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 597e223a3ba39de2cfa9f3b250bb5464 On Friday, July 1 at 19:22 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: > Albert Hopkins writes: [...] > At the risk of exposing further ignorance on my part, I'm curious what > it means in fstab where you have: > > /.swap none swap sw 0 0 > > At the swap line. > > That's another thing I haven't seen before.I mean the /DOTswap > `/.swap', does it just mean there is no swap? For the virtual appliances, I use a swap file instead of a swap partition, partially because I'm lazy and partially because it's easier to resize later on than a partition. The "." just means it's a standard "hidden" file per Unix convention[1] (i.e. you won't normally see if if you do "ls" but will if you do "ls -a". > Its hard to google because google doesn't recognize the . (dot), so a > search with terms like: > > site:gentoo.org fstab "/.swap" > > still finds /swap (with no dot) google throws out the dot. > > I've noticed similar behavior on google if you try something > like "--color=auto" as a search term.. google appears to throw > out the `--' (dashdash) and the `=' equal sign. You'd probably not find anything useful via Google anyway. It's just a standard swap file, but the name starts with a ".". You can rename it to whatever you want. -a [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_file_and_hidden_directory#Unix_and_Unix-like_environments