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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