On Friday 15 October 2004 02:23, Mallia Cedric at MITTS wrote: >I just realised that one of our servers (with 1G of RAM) has no swap > enabled. Can anyone help as to how I can enable swap without > reformatting or reinstalling ? > >Regards > >Cedric If the swap partition is actually defined someplace, then adding it to /etc/fstab and doing an /sbin/swapon as root should get it going. However, if the partition scheme you setup doesn't include a swap partition, then it may be best to get another small drive and shut it down long enough to install it as /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd, keeping it off the same cable the main drive is on. Then fdisk it to setup enough of it as swap, some as /var and the rest as a backup storage area like I did. Put it in the /etc/fstab, and do the swapon. Another 2 to 3GB should be enough, and as its on a seperate drive, it will be faster than thrashing the main drive. Since drives don't come that small anymore, I moved /var to it too so logging wouldn't go down when the darned thing went read-only on the main drive when it got busy (& it hasn't since, with -rc4), and then used the last 180GB of it as a virtual tape setup for amanda. Thats what I did with a new 200GB a month ago, and its working right well. You'll have to rig a copy of /var to the new drive while its mounted to some temporary /mnt/xxx location, fix etc/fstab for the new /var location and reboot to make the /var switch effective. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
