Re: resizing swap partition
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 14:13 -0400, Chris Roddy wrote:
> I've recently doubled the memory in two of my systems. Each one
> previously had a swap partition configured that was, in accordance with
> a "rule of thumb" whose origins I've forgotten, exactly two times the
> size of the physical memory in the system.
>
> Resizing the data partitions on these systems to make room for a larger
> swap space would present only a minor inconvenience, but is it even
> worth that effort? If there's no reason to prefer a 4GB swap partition
> over a 2GB partition for a system with 2GB of physical memory, then I'd
> just as soon leave things as they are.
>
> Thoughts?
If you are using a 2.6 kernel, then you can also use a swap *file*.
"man mkswap" tells you how to set it up.
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