On 5/18/2011 3:42 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: > I just checked the man page for mkswap, it still recommends using a partition. Gavin, you know who Andrew Morton is, yes? His opinion on the subject: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326 Don't know about you, but I think I'll trust Morton's opinion on this more than the writer of the mkswap man page. BTW, the similarities between what I wrote earlier and Morton's comments in the lkml thread above are not coincidental. ;) -- Stan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html