[plug] swap query

[Matt Kemner]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, quoth Craig Dyke:

> I have an old laptop with only a couple of gig of space and was wondering
> if plugging a 500MB / 1GB thumb drive into usb port would be able to
> be used effectively as swap?

It'd be fairly slow I think, plus if you accidentally remove the drive
without running "swapoff" first you will crash your kernel.

I'd be more inclined to allocate a portion of the HDD as swap and then use
the thumb drive as storage space (eg /home/)

 - Matt