On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:12, James D. Parra wrote: > ... > > Okay, this is interesting. > > #dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=2GB count=1K > dd: memory exhausted
You're asking dd to allocate a single, contiguous 2 gigabyte block of primary storage (a.k.a. RAM) to use as the buffer for transferring the data from the input to the output. And as Patrick pointed out, if this did succeed, you'd need a file system with space available to hold a 2 terabyte file, since you're trying to write those 2 gigabytes to the file 1024 times. Try this: % dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=2M count=1K ~~~ Okay, I got it. I now see what this is doing and how it is being done. Everything is working. Thank you all for your illuminating responses. ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
