Re: Increase Swap from 128 MB to 256 MB

[Sanjeev Gupta <ghane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, No, No!!!  I am the real Ghane, all else are fakes.

There is no need to repartition.  It hurts me to say this, but Neil's
method is right.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile bs=1024k count=127 
# mkswap /var/swapfile
# swapon /var/swapfile
# echo "/var/swapfile none swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

HTH

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Neil wrote:

> Sanjay Gupta wrote:
> 
> > Hey Guys !
> >
> > Any Idea how to increase swap space in the RHL 6.2.
> >
> > I have SWAP Partition of 127 MB. But now I want to increase by128 MB ie
> > 256 MB.
> > except reloading Linux, is there any way that I can reserv some space
> > from my existing partition say root partion for swap. My root partition
> > has ample space to accomaodate it.
> >
> 
> ghane... u asking this question???
> well there is a way of using a file for swap instead of a partition.
> i remember i had to do it for my 386.
> use mkswap to make a file into a swapspace.
> and then, swapon
> Neil
> 
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