On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 03:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have one hard disk with three partions: /, /boot, and /home. I want > to add a swap file on the /home partion, because it has the most > available space. I found lots of pages where it gives instructions on > how to add the file, but they all seem to want to put the file on /. > The instructions mostly are: > 1. Determine the size of the new swap file and multiple by 1024 to > determine the block size. For example, the block size of a 64 MB swap > file is 65536. > 2. At a shell prompt as root, type the following command with count > being equal to the desired block size: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536 > 3. Setup the swap file with the command: > mkswap /swapfile > 4. To enable the swap file immediately but not automatically at boot time: > swapon /swapfile > 5. To enable it at boot time, edit /etc/fstab to include: > /swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 > The next time the system boots, it will enable the new swap file. > 6. After adding the new swap file and enabling it, make sure it is > enabled by viewing the output of the command cat /proc/swaps or free. > > But how do I tell it to make the file on the /home partion? Also, if I > have 512 MB of ram, would a 1024 MB swap file be advisable? I know > that the old RAM*2 theory is out, but what is in? ----- try dd uf=/dev/zero of=/home/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536 swapon /home/swapfile instead Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
