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 at mavis ~]$ ssh beau rj at beau's password: Last login: Tue Nov 4 11:31:13 2008 [rj at beauregard ~]$ su - Password: # Create the file: [root at 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 at 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 at beauregard ~]# echo "/root/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab # Activate the new swap area: [root at beauregard ~]# swapon -a # Sure enough, it is in use: [root at beauregard ~]# cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda5 partition 1534168 75304 -1 /root/swapfile file 1048568 0 -2 [root at beauregard ~]#