On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 11:03:42PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > 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. > swapon should work on swap files no matter what partition they are in. At it least it used to work for me on earlier Fedora versions.- ======================================================================= He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream too. -- Lewis Carroll ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
