Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:
Hi ALL,
I have a harddisk with 3 primary partitions and one extended partitions. Under extented partions , there are 15 partions.
Whole hard disk has been partitioned in a standard way, (i.e NOT LVM)
It has 2GB ram. swap is also 2GB.
Now I want to extend this swap to 4 GB.
If I use dd coomand and create a file with 2GB, Will I be able to extend the swap witn swapon commnad?
How can I achive this?
Hope to hear form you,
I just now shelled into a newly-loaded FC8 box and expanded the swap with a swap file:
[rj@mavis ~]$ ssh beau rj@beau's password: Last login: Tue Nov 4 11:31:13 2008 [rj@beauregard ~]$ su - Password: # Create the file: [root@beauregard ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/swapfile bs=1G count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 119.248 s, 9.0 MB/s #Make the swap fs on the file: [root@beauregard ~]# mkswap -c /root/swapfile Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1073737 kB no label, UUID=c75b5eaa-b483-44c8-9e4c-c895b16b045c # Create an entry in fstab: [root@beauregard ~]# echo "/root/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab # Activate the new swap area: [root@beauregard ~]# swapon -a # Sure enough, it is in use: [root@beauregard ~]# cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda5 partition 1534168 75304 -1 /root/swapfile file 1048568 0 -2 [root@beauregard ~]#