> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 08:45:50AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: >> On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 13:22, Le Ngoc Thach wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > How I can inscrease size of swap without loss data in RedHat Linux >> 8.0? or What program to resize partition ext3, swap without loss >> data in RedHat Linux 8.0 >> >> You can have more than one swap partition. I don't know what the >> upper limit is. Just set apart another partition and add it to >> /etc/fstab. -- > You can have more than 1 but they all have to be smaller than 2Gig. > Since I didn't see this presented I'll offer up the option of creating a swap file instead of a partition. Use the mkswap command to format a file as a swap (the "dd" command is in the mkswap man page). Then just issue "swapon <path-to-file>". Provided that is set up and working, add a line to /etc/fstab to swap it on at reboot. Keith -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
