Re: [SLUG] swap file creation

[DaZZa <dazza@nospam.zip.com.au>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Ben Donohue wrote:

> i've deleted/lost the swap partition.
> there is room on the HDD for a swap partition, so how does one go about
> creating a new swap partition?
> ie what's the command to create a new swap partition.
> 
> i've tried fdisk.
> created a new partition.
> changed it's id from 83 (linux ext2) to 82 (linux swap)

Create partition {which you've done}

mkswap /dev/hdaX - replacing X with your partition number.
Edit /etc/fstab and add the correct line - it should look something like
this

/dev/hdaX	swap	swap	defaults	0 0

That format might not be exactly correct - someone could jump in here and
point it out exactly, since my Linux box is at home, and I'm not, so I
can't confirm my off the top of my head outline.

> what's the way forward?

The way forward is slow and troubled, my son, but learn well, Glasshopper,
and soon you will be enlightened.

DaZZa

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