On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:58 PM, ANKIT <[email protected]> wrote:
> i m running ubuntu 9.04on virtual box > > it has14.32 gb of root > and 690.29 mb of swap > total space of 15 gb > > gparted is unable to resizerot and swap space > i > pease tell me how to increase swap space on virtual box > i tried it with google but i couldnot understand that. > > -- > I dont think Swap will be much beneficial in case of virtualization. However to increase swap space you need not to resize partition you can create a file inside root partition of any size(size you would like to add to your swap space) *Steps will be as follows * *1. dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/1000mb.swap bs=1M count=1000* We created a swap file here with name 1000mb.swap before initializing it with mkswap . *2. mkswap /mnt/1000mb.swap* To start using the swap file we just created type in *3. swapon /mnt/1000mb.swap* Make changes to */etc/fstab* to register the newly created swap file .Add the following line to the bottom of the file *4. /mnt/1000mb.swap none swap sw 0 0* Restart using *reboot *command. -- Regards Sumit Sati COT Pantnagar -- Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post Read archive - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug
