On 10/29/05, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> 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. > I would consider putting it on / but / is at 70% capacity- 2.3 gigs free from a total of 7.5, whereas /home is at 30%: 6.6 free from a total of 9.5 gigs. Or would I be better off putting the swap file on / despite that? If I login as root and don't mount /home, could I partion it and put a swap partion on it? I had researched this in the past, and had come to the conclusion that on an ext3 partion this is not possible. I think that it was Alex Dalloz who talked me out of if, and I know to follow his word! But I don't think that I made it clear at the time that /home was a seperate partion. Any thoughts/opinions/experience out there? It seems that if I put the swap file on /home then I will need to manually start it as root when I log on. Is that simply the command: "# swapon /swapfile"? Can I just add that to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and be done with it? Dotan Cohen technology-sleuth.com/question/why_are_internet_greeting_cards_dangerous.html
