Activating swap partitions

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> 
> Is there any particular reason to turn on swap space before mounting other 

Yes. For low memory systems it is important to turn on swap as early as
possible.

> filesystems? IMO it would be better to call swapon after mounting at least 
> all local filesystems since swap can be put on one of them. BTW, would it be 
> reasonable to put swap space on remote filesystem?

There should be the second attempt then.

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