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From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] another openoffice build failure
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:26:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640609021626m4ebbb138q13fdfc064e4da93e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609021423.55605.lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com>

On 9/2/06, Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> wrote:
> A cheap way to get more memory:
>
> o wipe a USB key clean (back it up though!)
> o mkspwap /dev/sda1 or whereever your usb memory stick is
> o swapon all

It had better be a disposable key, as flash memory is only good for so
many writes before it fails....better (and faster) would be to add a
swap file.

-Richard
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-02 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-02 18:07 [gentoo-user] another openoffice build failure Allan Gottlieb
2006-09-02 18:22 ` Rafael Fernández López
2006-09-02 20:19   ` Allan Gottlieb
2006-09-02 21:10 ` Richard Fish
2006-09-02 21:23   ` Lord Sauron
2006-09-02 23:26     ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-09-02 23:14   ` Allan Gottlieb
2006-09-03  1:36     ` Allan Gottlieb
2006-09-03  2:16       ` Richard Fish
2006-09-04 21:59         ` Allan Gottlieb

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