23 May
2004
23 May
'04
14:19
A Swap partition is good to have, but not entirely necessary. You can also create a swap file on your system. The mkswap(8) man page has instructions for doing this. In Linux, the swapon(8) command turns on the spap space, and swapoff(8) turns it off. The swapon(8) is performed on each swap space defined in /etc/fstab when you transition to multi-user mode during bootup. But, you can issue these commands manually.
Thanks for the info. I also thought I'd look into the YAST module about partitioning, but it seems like a pretty important thing to do to the setup. I didn't want to mess with anything I'd regret later. Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA USA) cygnia@sonic.net