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

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Date: 2011-07-02 07:22

>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 means the system is using a swapfile -- whose name is '.swap' and located in the root directory '/' -- rather than a swap partition.

>That's another thing I haven't seen before.I mean the /DOTswap
>`/.swap', does it just mean there is no swap?

Nope. You can call the file 'my_awesome_file_for_swapping' and put it in /var/cache, resulting in '/var/cache/my_awesome_file_for_swapping' instead of '/.swap'.

The dot, as usual, is to un-clutter the output of 'ls /' (unless you use the -a switch, of course)

Note: If you want to use your own file, don't forget to 'mkswap /path/to/file' *before* replacing the entry in fstab

>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. 

Somewhere in the jungle of documents in Google's help system, Google explained that they index *only* based on letters, and strip out symbols. Except for symbols that became part of a trademark, e.g., 'C#'.


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