any swap utilities I can use on fc5
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed May 16 16:39:35 UTC 2007
At 12:16 PM -0400 5/16/07, Anthony J Placilla wrote:
>Paula J. Lindsay wrote:
>> I installed a fc5 machine yesterday and now the doctor says he needs
>> 16gigs of swap space. Is there a utility that I can use
>> to add swap space without repartitioning and reinstalling the whole os?
>> I tried the mkswap, but was not successful.
>> Many thanks in advance.
>> Paula
>>
>
>
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=1024 count=16384
bs=1M
>mkswap /extra-swap
>
>swapon /extra-swap
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