[LUAU] swap

Chris Wong wongc at math.ed.hawaii.edu
Mon Mar 29 10:44:36 PST 1999


On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, David C. Eason, Jr. wrote:

> Is there any way to make a swap partition after you've been running the
> syste for a while, apparently I forgot to make one last year when I first
> installed slack.

Is there a free partition on your computer?

If not, then it'll be kind of hard to get a new paritition.
(otherwise, fdisk the parition to type 83, run mkswap /dev/whatever, and
then swapon /dev/whatever)

(oh, then add it in the /etc/fstab.)

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chris

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