swap on linux

[mcmanus at ducksong.com (Patrick R. McManus)]

[Bob Keyes: Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 04:09:41PM -0500]
> You use what's called a swap file. You use dd to create a file of the
> appropriate size, and then turn it on with the swapon command.

you need to mkswap(8) the file in between dd'ing it and running
swapon.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/newswapfile bs=1024k count=256
mkswap /newswapfile
swapon /newswapfile

you probably also want to add the swapon to an rc file.

-P

> 
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Anand A Rao wrote:
> 
> > hi  ,
> > how do I increase swap space on a  linux system without creating another
> > partition .. ?
> >  cheers
> > Andy
> 
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