Re: [PLUG] what the hell is my computer doing?

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:16:51PM -0500, Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> On 08/29, William Shank wrote:
> > i don't need to make a partition right? i can just add a swap file?
> 
> Correct.  But I haven't done that in.. probably years.

You ought to just be able to make a file, say, like this:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=swap bs=1M count=128 #assuming you want a 128M file

Then format it as swap space:

$ mkswap ./swap

Then add it to the fstab and run 'swapon -a'.

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