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  • From: russ loroville <bontemps AT m-net.arbornet.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Swapon
  • Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 13:51:48 -0400 (EDT)

James,
You are probably right. You may need it in the bootup format for it to
work, so an alias may not work.

On Sat, 24 May 2003, James Miller wrote:

> On Sat, 24 May 2003, russ loroville wrote:
>
> > I have obtained a formula for an alias swap turn on. It makes a swap but
> > it is not used:
> > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > alias xtra='dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=8 of=/swap; mkswap /swap 8192;
> > sync;swapon /swap'
> > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> Did you add your swap partition to /etc/fstab? I'm not sure what your
> forumla is supposed to do (my ignorance about many Linux details), but
> if you make and format a swap partition, then add it to /etc/fstab, it
> will be automatically mounted and used on bootup. Hope this helps.
>
> James
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