Re: any swap utilities I can use on fc5

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At 12:16 PM -0400 5/16/07, Anthony J Placilla wrote:
>Paula J. Lindsay wrote:
>>    I installed a fc5 machine yesterday and now the doctor says he needs
>>    16gigs of swap space.  Is there a utility that I can use
>>    to add swap space without repartitioning and reinstalling the whole os?
>>    I tried the mkswap, but was not successful.
>>    Many thanks in advance.
>>    Paula
>>
>
>
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=1024 count=16384

bs=1M

>mkswap /extra-swap
>
>swapon /extra-swap
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