From: fset@guug.de (Fachschaft E-Technik TUM) Subject: Re: 8 MB for Linux not enough!! HELP!! Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1993 06:09:01 GMT
jimr@world.std.com (James A Robinson) writes:
>cfs@mathcs.emory.edu (Charles Stephens (ast GA uucpMC - exp 1/9/93)) writes:
>>Why not just make one out of an ordinary file. It's untested, but it
>>might work. (at least the system will allow you to mkswap and swapon to
>>an ordinary file)
>>Compile this quickie program...
>There is no need to do this, just use dd on the current file system.
>dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/swap_file bs=1024 count=5120
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I DO NOT REMEMBER THE FORMAT, CHECK THE MAN PAGE
Use 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/swap_file bs=1024 count=5120', it needs only half
of the disk accesses.
>This will create a 5 meg file ready for swap, just do a
>mkswap /dev/swap_file 5120
>swapon /dev/swap_file
>and you have a swap. You can put the sawpon command in your rc file.
Put the following line in fstab
/dev/swap_file none swap defaults
Then the swapfile is being set up by the standard 'swapon -av', which should
be in your rc file (if you use SLS).
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