Creating Swap Areas

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Tue Oct 5 22:43:22 UTC 2004


John J. Boyer writes:
> I have a 
> partition called CP/M / CTOS. ?What is that for? Can I change it to a 
> swap partition? It's about 3 GB.

Use fdisk to set its type to 82, run mkswap on it, and put it in /etc/fstab as
swap (instead of ext3, nfs, or whatever).

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