Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:
Hi ALL,
I have a harddisk with 3 primary partitions and one extended
partitions. Under extented partions , there are 15 partions.
Whole hard disk has been partitioned in a standard way, (i.e NOT LVM)
It has 2GB ram. swap is also 2GB.
Now I want to extend this swap to 4 GB.
If I use dd coomand and create a file with 2GB, Will I be able to
extend the swap witn swapon commnad?
How can I achive this?
Hope to hear form you,
I just now shelled into a newly-loaded FC8 box and expanded the swap
with a swap file:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ssh beau
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
Last login: Tue Nov 4 11:31:13 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su -
Password:
# Create the file:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/swapfile bs=1G count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 119.248 s, 9.0 MB/s
#Make the swap fs on the file:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# mkswap -c /root/swapfile
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1073737 kB
no label, UUID=c75b5eaa-b483-44c8-9e4c-c895b16b045c
# Create an entry in fstab:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# echo "/root/swapfile
swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
# Activate the new swap area:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# swapon -a
# Sure enough, it is in use:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used
Priority
/dev/sda5 partition 1534168 75304 -1
/root/swapfile file 1048568 0 -2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
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