Re: regarding swap space
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> I currently have two drives in my machine, one primary master with debian
> unstable and a swap partition, and one unused primary slave.
>
> What I'm looking to do, is create a swap partition on the slave drive, and
> use that instead of the one on my primary master. I don't need the space
> from the primary master, but using that swap is slowing down my system.
>
> How can I accomplish this?
Us the mkswap command ("man mkswap" for details) to initialize the the
partition as a swap partiation (be careful - everything there get's nuked).
Then you can use the swapon command ("man swapon") to activate it. Similary,
use swapoff to disable the old swap.
To make it permanent you'll have to modify /etc/fstab to point to the new
partition. It should be pretty obvious what to do; just change the partition
pointer on the line that mentions swap...
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