Thanks Orly, was able to that already. with a 17GB partition. :-) 



-----Original Message-----
From: Orlando Andico [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List
Cc: Sacha Chua
Subject: RE: [plug]Swap Increase


On Wed, 12 May 2004, Robert de los Santos wrote:
..
> Yes,I always do run out of memory. 
> Unfortunately i wont be able to add additional memory on it. 
> it already have the maximum 2GB memory, w/c the mobo could handle. 

but if you're hard-headed and you want to add a swap file, here's how to 
do it.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/my_swap_file bs=1M count=18000
mkswap /mnt/my_swap_file
swapon /mnt/my_swap_file

just change the first line to reflect the realities of your situation.


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Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mosaic Communications, Inc.


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