From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) Subject: Re: bug: In kernel or in screen? Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 08:14:56 GMT
wolf@sol.cs.uni-sb.de (Wolfgang Huwig) writes:
>This thread remembers me of a question i had some day:
>if I needed e.g. 16MB of swap space sometimes but not all the time, it
>would be great to be able to use this space as a tmp area. Would it be
>possible to implement something like tmpfs under linux?
You can add swap space on the fly, if you want. You can even use a
swap file, and delete that file when you don't need the swap space.
You can use several swap files at once, and add them one at a time as
your free swap space diminishes. See the mkswap and swapon commands.
However, you have to do this by hand or write a background demon to do
it for you, it is not done automatically.