Request: permanent swap partition on USB

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Request for feature

Having permanent swap on USB stick would let hard disks sleep as much as 
possible. Swap area on a hard disk will wake it up when random page retrieval 
occurs.

Combined with vm.swappiness = 0 in /etc/sysctl.conf should keep page writes to 
minimum and not straing USB stick too much with write operations.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [e-mail] on 9 Mar 2012 at 3:50

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I will add a "Allow swapping on USB devices" option under Disk Utilities.

Original comment by [e-mail] on 12 Mar 2012 at 2:26

• Changed state: Accepted

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implemented by SVN commit 1571

Original comment by [e-mail] on 13 Mar 2012 at 6:23

• Changed state: Fixed

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I flashed DNS-323 A1 with Alt-F 0.1RC2. I cannot find said option. Was this 
dropped in the meantime?

Original comment by [e-mail] on 23 Feb 2013 at 10:18

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No, it will be available for RC3. You can *try*, not flash, the latest RC3 
snapshots, look in the forum for "experimental RC3"

Original comment by [e-mail] on 23 Feb 2013 at 3:53