[Fwd: swapfile and more ram]
"David B.Teague" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 1 May 1999, add|ct|on wrote:
>
> > my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was
> > wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have
> > 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to
> > make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with
> > partitions again? i'm a relative newbie to this so if you reply please
> > speak in simple terms <g>. thanks!
>
> Hi
>
> I refer you to Oliver Elphick's response about disk repartitioning
> for more swap.
>
> If you *need* more swap space, you can create a swap file. It will
> be slower than a swap partition (you are running things through
> the file system) but it works. It got me out of the woods.
>
> Actually, man mkwap will tell you all you need to know. Write me
> back if you need to.
>
> --David
> David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
> Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
> useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
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thank you for your help, david. it's appreciated, and was by for the
most useful response i received. if the man confuses me i'll be sure to
drop another line, thanks.
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