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Re: regarding swap space



On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:39:19PM +1000, Renai LeMay wrote:
> 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?

Use "mkswap" to create a swap partition on the drive and then point
/etc/fstab to that partition.  Turn off your current swap partition with
"swapoff" and turn on your new swap with "swapon"
hth,
kent

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