[CentOS] Changing swap resume signature location

Mag Gam magawake at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 20:31:03 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Patrice Guay
<patrice.guay at nanotechnologies.qc.ca> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Patrice Guay
>>> <patrice.guay at nanotechnologies.qc.ca> wrote:
>>>> At boot time, the system is looking for a resume signature on the
>>>> default SWAP partition that was defined during the OS installation.
>>>>
>>>> On several systems, I changed the location of the SWAP partition. How do
>>>> I change the location where the system looks at boot time for the resume
>>>> signature?
>>>>
>> 1. Format the swap partition again: sudo mkswap /dev/XXX
>> 2. Activate swap partition sudo swapon /dev/XXX
>> 3. Replace UUID=XXX in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume by
>>    "resume=/dev/XXX"
>> 4. Regenerate the initrd: sudo mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.XX
>> (same version as the kernel)
>>
>
> I cannot find the /etc/initramfs-tools directory on my system. Which
> package provides it under CentOS 5?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Patrice
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This is a Debian specific command. I am certain something like this
exists for CentOS too...



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