On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Zico <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, i want to increase my swap space in my Debian 5.0 server.

First thing is why do you need more swap?

> dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=512k count=1024
> mkswap /swap
> chmod 0600 /swap
> swapon /swap
> *
> Also included this line in /etc/fstab:
> *
> /swap swap swap defaults 0 0*
>
> And, at last :  *free -m
>
> *After everything swapon -s gave me the result:
>
> Filename                                Type            Size    Used
> Priority
> /dev/sda6                               partition       1967920 0       -1
> /swap                                       file                524280
> 0       -2
>
> *Now, my question is: does it actually increased my swap space?*

Yes, you can see it listed there.
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