Subj : ArchLinux
To : GRYPHON
From : BCW142
Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:20 pm
Re: ArchLinux
By: Gryphon to Access Denied on Sat Aug 23 2014 21:05:00
> My only attempt at installing Arch Linux was on my Pi. It seemed to install
> great, but then *after* the install it wanted to configure the swap space.
> But there was no more space on the drive to add it, because it was all used
> during the install. Is that a problem that is specific to the Pi install?
> Can it be worked into the initial installation, so that I don't have to
> configure swap after the fact?
Something is odd there, swap was no problem and I had installed Arch on two SD
cards when I was frist using my Pi. I do find it odd they use SD space for
swap, but they do with that weird /dev/mmcblk0pX stuff where X is 1-9, hmm my
current swap doesn't show up that way with Raspbian, but it is only 102396. Was
that on 4G, 8G, 16G, 32G? The current normal is 8G and it's enough for quite a
bit. I just setup a B+ with 3T USB drive (MyBook). If you have hard drive space
you can make a small swap partition with gparted or the like and use swapon and
swapoff in the scripts to use it. I often do that by hand on my USB Stick
installs as it depends on the system I boot with them and swap isn't used much
except for web broswers.
