Dear Darryl, Martin and all,

Thanks for your great help.

I will use Red Hat Linux 6.2 on these old machines so i will definitely
have swap in any case on the hard disks.

I plan to use swap on the machines which have only 16 MB RAM. I wont use
any swap on the machines which have 32 MB RAM. I am not going to use
local apps any way.


Now my question is How can I mount other partitions on the local hard
disks, may be fat or Linux ?

Once again thanks to all.


On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 03:06, Darryl Bond wrote:
> This script (/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.d/hd_swap) can swap on to an MSDOS 
> file on an existing filesystem if available. It will use a linux swap 
> partition if available.
> BTW you must place a copy of fdisk in /opt/ltsp/i386/bin
> 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> ##################################################
> # Probe in the modules
> modprobe ide-mod
> modprobe ide-probe-mod
> modprobe ide-disk
> 
> ###########  Mount any swap available ############
> if [ -d /dev/ide/hd ]
> then
> SWAP=`fdisk -l /dev/ide/hd/c?b?t?u? | grep swap | tail -n 1 | cut -d' ' 
> -f 1` 2>/dev/null
> if [ ! "$SWAP" = "" ]
> then # A linux swap disk is available
>         modprobe blkdev_swap
>         echo "Swapping onto $SWAP"
>         swapon $SWAP
> else # try to create a swapfile on an MSDOS fs
>    SWAP=`fdisk -l /dev/ide/hd/c?b?t?u? | grep FAT | tail -n 1 | cut -d' 
> ' -f 1`
> 2>/dev/null
>    if [ ! "$SWAP" = "" ]
>    then # got a DOS fs
>         modprobe blkdev_swap
>         if [ ! -d /mnt/dos ]
>         then
>                 mkdir /mnt/dos
>         fi
>         mount -t msdos $SWAP /mnt/dos
>         if [ ! -f /mnt/dos/LNX_SWAP ]
>         then
>            echo "Creating a swap file on the DOS partition"
>            #dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/dos/LNX_SWAP bs=1024 count=32768
>            /sbin/prep_swap -s 32m -f /mnt/dos/LNX_SWAP
>            if [ $? -eq 0 ]
>            then
>               echo "Successfully built swapfile"
>            fi
>         fi
>         if [ -f /mnt/dos/LNX_SWAP ]
>         then
>            mkswap -v1 /mnt/dos/LNX_SWAP
>            swapon /mnt/dos/LNX_SWAP
>         fi
>    fi
> fi
> fi
> 
> 
> Murali Potla wrote:
> 
> >Where can i get the script ?
> >how to use local hard disk swap ?
> >
> > 
> >On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 01:48, Gerhard Damerau wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hello
> >>Anywhere on the ltsp-site I found a script to use local hard disk drive for
> >>swapping.
> >>RCFILE_01 = hd_swap
> >>We have rather old PentiumI-Machines with 64 MB als clients. I tested local
> >>hd swapping, and it seems to work fine.
> >>We use fat applications like Star Office and Mozilla.
> >>My question: Is this a solution to avoid NFS-swapping over the network? Or
> >>is it only useful for local applications?
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance
> >>Gerhard Damerau
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> 
> 
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