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Re: debian 2.2 CRASHES often & easily



On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 07:22:06PM +0000, Tom Huckstep wrote:
> I think this is your problem.  Adding 128 M of swap to 64 M of
> physical memory solved it for me.
> 
> Unfortunately, unless you have some free space on your hard disk(s)
> you are going to have to delete a partition and recreate _it_ and a
> swap partition.  You can use something like cfdisk.  You might have
> used it when you installed Debian.

Not true. You can turn a regular file into a swap file and add it to
/etc/fstab (see man mkswap).  I have one in /var/local set with a lower
priority than the dedicated partition.

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>



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