Do not do this at all.
You should not enable swap on the Raspberry Pi.
Although it is possible, it is not useful.
Even on a class 10 SDHC card, it is just too slow. Also you will reduce the lifespan of the SD card.
On any flash-based storage device (SD card, SDD, USB thumb drives) you are als...
@dunsmoreb Probably tomorrow, but... I realized I was kinda going off on a tangent here with that anyway (that's the trouble with trying to write about one thing while having a conversation about something else). Here's my take on @Jiving's post from earlier:
No. Off-topic questions aren't necessary for a healthy community.
As Robert notes, you don't want to just throw your hands up and allow any topic provided it comes from someone working with a RaspberryPi device. You cannot reasonably hope to cover any possible questions of interest to Raspberry...
I am interested to know if there may be any security or permissions related reasons for creating a new user.
I am using the Debian Squeeze operating system from the Raspberry Pi website.
I want to share my experiences this week and how my opinion has been shaped by the community.
I have spent a great deal of time in chat, and it seems this meta question is brought up at least once a day, and still appears to not be resolved.
Today I had a discussion with Andrew Fogg. Andrew is...
Over at RaspberryPi.SE we were discussing the effects of setting an empty root password.
This sparked confusion, as we seemed to have a differing idea of the result of this. Does it effectively disable the account (like we observed in Debian-based systems)? Or does it allow you to use the root a...
It's not actually setting an empty password. That was just our interpretation of what's happening.
It's not set to an empty password, but to a non-existing one.
-l, --lock
Lock the password of the named account. This option disables a password by changing it to a value which matches no possible encrypted value (it adds a ´!´
at the beginning of the password).
That's what's happening when the account is disabled on Debian.
By setting a password, the account is reenabled because, now the password is valid.
But that doesn't imply that no password was set previously.
@Jivings quick thought about your question re resize / partition, should we worry about / vs root that is one of those things you pick up along the way with linux but not neccesarily common knowledge. should it be resize my / (root) partition?
I'm still concerned about that answer. For some reason I was under the impression that the filesystem size is constrained by the size of the image flashed onto the card.
With the large number of Raspberry Pis in the wild, and the fact that large groups of them are configured identically (when a newly-flashed SD card is installed with one of the few available images), they are likely to be a tempting target for malware, including botnets.
What can be done to miti...
Really going now, I'll catch up with you later. I actually have a different answer to that question, but I wanted you to explain yours so I could determine which was better.
a logical limit is one imposed by the partition table. so there is the configured limit (partition table size) and the physical size (total disk space). have you ever dual booted a machine with only a single hard drive. or maybe your pc has a single drive but has 2 different drive letters
I've been approving or rejecting Tag Wiki Excerpt Edit Suggestions, but some of them are close and I'd like to just tweak them. We can improve regular edit suggestions, how about giving us an Improve button for Tag Wiki Edit Suggestions.
Note: If I click on the tag wiki excerpt link, then it ta...
With the large number of Raspberry Pis in the wild, and the fact that large groups of them are configured identically (when a newly-flashed SD card is installed with one of the few available images), they are likely to be a tempting target for malware, including botnets.
What can be done to miti...
I would like this question about installing from AUR on Arch Linux ARM to be a community question.
How do I install packages from the AUR?
I can see it as common question coming up for new Arch Linux users.
On the left of the Raspberry logo, there is a DSI connector. I am not familiar with this standard. What sort of displays can I connect to using this connector? And can I buy these displays off the shelf?
Been having the toughest time over the last week trying to get gst-omx plugin working with gstreamer on the Raspberry PI.
I wonder if anyone here has done it and could show me how?
I've installed wheezy as git://git.collabora.co.uk/git/user/gkiagia/gst-omx0.10-debian.git needs a testing version...
Raspberry Pi has only 256 MB of RAM, so I would like to use swap space (either on SD card or attached USB storage). How do I set it up?
No. Off-topic questions aren't necessary for a healthy community.
As Robert notes, you don't want to just throw your hands up and allow any topic provided it comes from someone working with a RaspberryPi device. You cannot reasonably hope to cover any possible questions of interest to Raspberry...
I am interested to know if there may be any security or permissions related reasons for creating a new user.
I am using the Debian Squeeze operating system from the Raspberry Pi website.
I want to share my experiences this week and how my opinion has been shaped by the community.
I have spent a great deal of time in chat, and it seems this meta question is brought up at least once a day, and still appears to not be resolved.
Today I had a discussion with Andrew Fogg. Andrew is...
On the left of the Raspberry logo, there is a DSI connector. I am not familiar with this standard. What sort of displays can I connect to using this connector? And can I buy these displays off the shelf?
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