BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition
De:       bp
Data:     Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:00:01 +1100
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Lawrence D?Oliveiro  wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:37:29 -0000 (UTC), bp wrote:
> 
>> Lawrence D?Oliveiro  wrote:
>>
>>> This is done by modifying the kernel command line -- there should
>>> be a bootloader option to do this on a one-time basis before
>>> actually loading the kernel.
>>
>> I can understand editing cmdline.txt and rebooting as a way to get
>> single user ...
> 
> No, this is using one of the options in the bootloader menu
> (?advanced?, I think it is) to do a one-time edit to the command line
> for that boot.
 
I'm not familiar with such a menu, how is it invoked?

> You don?t want to permanently put the system to booting
> into single-user mode every time, do you?
No, but I could edit cmdline.txt, reboot to single-user,
finish my business, re-edit cmdline.txt and reboot again.

I was hopeful somebody would respond to my query regarding
the relative speeds of swapfiles vs swap partitions. If
they're anywhere close in performance a swapfile seems
worth trying. 

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska


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