[plug] Statically Mounting USB Drives

[Paul Antoine]

You'd be *much* better off not using swap at all and simply putting more 
RAM in the machine... if that's possible.

P.

Jason Posavec wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I can't seem to solve this problem, so I'm trying to find out if it 
> *can* actually be solved. I want to have USB drives as a permanent 
> part of fstab. More specifically, a USB thumb drive connected on one 
> of the internal motherboard connecters to run as my swap drive. 
> Problem seems to be that depending on what external USB drives may or 
> may not be switched on at boot time, Linux (and presumably any OS) 
> seems to be a bit random in the order it mounts USB drives.
>
> Anyone know of a way it can be done statically?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason Posavec
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