On 06Oct2005 13:23, Opesh <opeshalkara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| I don't have unpartitioned space in my hard disk to increase the swap space....
| Please suggest how should I go ahead to increase
| I believe I need to format any primary/extended partition and recreate
| it with less size to reclaim space for swap depending upon whether swap
| lies in primary or extended.......
| I am confused ...please suggest...
If your disc is fully partitioned you need a swap _file_!
Find a partition you're using for files that has lots of spare room.
Make the swap file on that partition.
See "man mkswap" and "man swapon". From the former:
To setup a swap file, it is necessary to create that file before ini-
tializing it with mkswap , e.g. using a command like
# dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
Note that a swap file must not contain any holes (so, using cp(1) to
create the file is not acceptable).
That example makes a 64MB swap file named "swapfile". Then prepare it:
mkswap swapfile
and then start using it:
swapon swapfile
I like to protect the file from accidental damage, too:
chmod 0 swapfile
You can name such a file in /etc/fstab, too, so it will get used on boot.
Cheers,
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