Very true, and swapgen is what we use here. I didn't want to muddy the water he was looking through though with additional tools, until he understood what he had at the moment.
If you don't understand where you are, it isn't really important that you might want to be 10 feet over there. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. RO-OC-1-18 200 First Street SW /V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ ----- ^^-^^ "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." On 4/20/11 10:42 AM, "David Boyes" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Since it's a fresh disk every time, you'd have to do the mkswap every >> time >> you log in, so my guess is that's why you'd need the mkswap and >> subsequent >> swapon in the boot.local. The vdisk wouldn't be formatted when you get >> it at >> each fresh logon. > > I'll point out that running SWAPGEN before Linux IPL is intended to solve this > problem. IPL CMS in the Linux guest at boot, and run SWAPGEN in the PROFILE > EXEC. The swap disk is formatted and marked as a swap disk, and Linux "just > works" from release to release, without having to do local mods inside the > Linux system. > > --d b > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
