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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 11:53:40 -0700
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I have two machines with 4GB of ram and I've never seen either one use
swapspace (yet) so I'm thinking I could delete my swap partitions and
substitute a much smaller swapfile -- if it's safe.

Any downside to using a swap file instead of a swap partition, maybe
depending on which filesystem you use, or something?  Security holes?
Any horror stories out there?