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More Swap With A Swap FileAdded on:8/13/2008 10:58:14 PM
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- You installed a new Linux system, but forgot to set enough swap space for your needs. Do you need to repartition and reinstall? No, the swap utilities on Linux allow you to make a real file and use it as swap space.
- The trick is to make a file and then tell the swapon program to use it. Here's how to create, for example, a 64 megs swap file on your root partition (of course make sure you have at least 64 megs free):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
- This will make a 64 megs (about 67 millions bytes) file on your hard drive. You now need to initialize it:
- mkswap /swapfile 65536
- sync
- And you can then add it to your swap pool:
swapon /swapfile
- With that you have 64 megs of swap added. Don't forget to add the swapon command to your startup files so the command will be repeated at each reboot.
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