any swap utilities I can use on fc5
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed May 16 16:18:12 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
>
16 GIGS?!! Of swap space? What the devil for? You can add more swap
using mkswap and swapon <device name>. That should do it. Although
I've never needed more than a half GB for a workstation and even then,
I've never touched 90% of that.
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