Re: [SLE] Could Not Create Swap Partition

On Sun, 23 May 2004 07:19:45 -0700 (PDT) cygnia@sonic.net wrote:

...

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. It is better to have a swap partition, but setting up a swap file is easy to do. I would strongly recommend that every Linux system should have at least one swap file, but with very large memory systems, it is less important. -- 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