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[Bob Keyes: Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 04:09:41PM -0500] > You use what's called a swap file. You use dd to create a file of the > appropriate size, and then turn it on with the swapon command. you need to mkswap(8) the file in between dd'ing it and running swapon. dd if=/dev/zero of=/newswapfile bs=1024k count=256 mkswap /newswapfile swapon /newswapfile you probably also want to add the swapon to an rc file. -P > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Anand A Rao wrote: > > > hi , > > how do I increase swap space on a linux system without creating another > > partition .. ? > > cheers > > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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