[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> writes:

> Well, thanks for pointing out the error in my appliance creation script
> that mistakenly sets up the serial console on non-headless VMs.  I've
> fixed the bug and created and uploaded a new image.

My tiny input isn't much... the big thanks goes to you and to James
for the walkthru to use Vbox on your appliances.

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?

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.