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 -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>