Re: /var/swap set to 2048MBytes as configured
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 07:25:24PM BST, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> on looking into dphys-swapfile I see what it wants to create is a
> swap=16010MByte however when 'checking existing' keeps the configured 2048MB
> instead and so does basically nothing.
>
> How or where does one change this configured amount or remove it so dphys-swapfile
> can create its file. If I remove the /var/swap file it is just recreated. I noticed
> that vim can't edit this file so where is this configuration of 2048 coming from?
Let me guess, you have 8GB of RAM?
The limit you are talking about is hard-coded into /sbin/dphys-swapfile.
In order to change it you need to create your own config.
man 8 dphys-swapfile
/var/swap IS the swap file, not a config one - you can't edit swap.
P.S. Please, read the documentation provided.
dpkg -L $package_name will show you all the files included in the
package (apart from the ones generated by maintainer scripts).
If there's not manual or info pages /usr/share/doc/$package_name
usually contains some documentation and/or examples.
Cheers,
--
rjc
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