On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 03:03:35 +0200, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> 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 /. There does seem to be some sort of problem with it not being on /. The swapon -a during boot doesn't seem to turn on swapfiles on other partitions even though as far as I can tell they should be mounted by that point. swapon -a after boot does pick them up. I didn't pursue this too far, so I might have missed something. For the time being I put a swap file on both / and another file system (on a second disk). The one on / gives me enough swap space for normal use and I can turn on the other one manually after reboots.
