[LUAU] swap

[Myles Uyema]

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.

Hopefully you've still got some free partitioning space.
Otherwise, you can make a swap FILE.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swapfile bs=1M count=96
this command creates a 96 meg empty file /var/swapfile

Then you will initialize it as a swapfile with:
mkswap /var/swapfile
swapon /var/swapfile

You may need to add swapon /var/swapfile to your startup scripts.

I haven't tested whether you can add swapfiles to /etc/fstab.

Myles

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