[CLUE-Tech] swap partition

[Ed Hill]

On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 21:16, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> I have my swap partition as a primary partition, but I have been doing 
> some repartitioning and I would now like to put it into an extended 
> partition.  How do I create a new swap partition on my existing 
> installation?


Hi Angelo,

See "man mkswap" and "man swapon" for full details.  For the short
version, just set aside a partition such as /dev/hda5 and:

  mkswap /dev/hda5

and then add an entry it to your /etc/fstab file:

  /dev/hda5    swap        swap    defaults        0 0

and you're done.

hth,
Ed

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