[rhn-users] Re: how to create a 1GB swap file

[Cameron Simpson]

On 16:59 18 Mar 2004, Fabian E. Barco <febarco at colredes.com> wrote:
| which is the right way to create 1 GB swap file?
| 
| dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile01 bs=1024 count=1048576
| or
| dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile01 bs=1048576 count=1024

Both will work. The second will be much faster.
After that you must mark it as swap with mkswap(8):

	mkswap swapfile01

Then it's ready for use.

Cheers,
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