Thanks. Right now I'm running /var is off the drive, I'm trying to move /home and the drive is still running but I do need to move it.
Net Llama! wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:30:40PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: >> > You're correct, you can have a swap file in linux. But its not worth >> > it if this is just for a few minutes while he shuffles some data about. >> >> Understood. However, his comment that he has no place to put it made >> me think that his need was going to be a bit longer than minutes. >> Perhaps at least long enough to acquire another hard drive; perhaps >> longer. >> >> The main thing is how does he do it? > > Something like: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=4096 > mkswap /swapfile > swapon /swapfile > -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
