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Re: Adding SWAP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick L. Mantooth)
Thu Nov 12 21:24:30 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:23:00 -0600 (CST)
From: "Rick L. Mantooth" <rickdman@cyberramp.net>
To: Alfonso Barreto Lopez <abl@jupiter.ccu.umich.mx>
cc: Forum de Red Hat <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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You can add more swap by adding additional swap partitions.
Find a partition with the size you want for your swap and
toggle the Id to 82 for Linux swap.
Then run "mkswap /dev/whatever". (Caution: will delete data)
Then run "swapon /dev/whatever" and you will see the *additional*
size of your swap space.
To automate it at boot time, add the line to your /etc/fstab:
/dev/whatever /none swap sw
and away you go....
You can do this "on the fly" if you have a partition already setup
that isn't being used.
Be aware, your MAX swap size is 128MB "Per swap Partition".
For 256MB of swap, you will need minumum of 2 128MB swap partitions.
Clear as mud?
Rick
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote:
> Is there a way to grow the SWAP partition?
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> Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M
> alfonso@matem.unam.mx
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