27 Apr
2003
27 Apr
'03
15:46
On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 10:28:28 -0500 Paul Benjaminwrote: > Please shutdown all programs possible if for no other reason to fit > everything in memory without swap. Do not be surprised if something > goes wrong so backup first! If you only have 1 swap partition available, and you do not want to boot into your rescue system, shutdown to single user mode first. This will flush just about everything from memory. Here are the steps: 1. shutdown now - this transitions you to single user mode. Alternatively, /sbin/init 1 (SuSE 8.0 or greater), 2. You will be asked for the root password. 3. swapoff -a -- turn off swap (or swapoff /dev/hdaX) 4. mkswap /dev/hdaX 5. swapon /dev/HDAX 6. /sbin/init 5 -- return to multi-user mode (5 is graphical SuSE 8.0 or greater). -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9