any swap utilities I can use on fc5
Anthony J Placilla
anthony_placilla at SUTH.COM
Wed May 16 16:16:05 UTC 2007
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
mkswap /extra-swap
swapon /extra-swap
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