On 2007-01-11 15:57, James D. Parra wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to create a 2 GB swap file after adding more memory to my system, > however how can I create such file by modifying the command below; > A swap ~file~?? You'd be far better off doing some repartitioning to create a new swap partition, as you'll then avoid all the overhead of the filesystem on the partition where the swapfile resides.
That being said, > dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=1024 count=1024 > bs= specifies the blocksize, in bytes, and count= specifies the number of blocks. You may use multiplicative suffixes to specify each of these, eg. your line is equivalent to this: dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=1K count=1K The following byte/count specifications will all create the 2G file you desire: bs=2G count=1 (though this will probably hardly be practical) bs=2M count=1K bs=2K count=1M (Note that kB, MB and GB all refer to powers of 1000, not 1024. This is standard SI nomenclature.) -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
