RE: [SLE] moving swap partition from sys drive to RAID drive
... /data takes up all space on the sdb drive. So you're already using the whole thing. Do you actually have anything on it, or is it just an empty partition?
Yes, there is 155G of important data on the drive. That is why I sent along the fstab and YAST partition output so all could see what I was up against. I could make a swapfile on the RAID and use swapon, however I was hoping there was a "friendly" way to create a new swap partition on or within a preexisting partition. Thank you again for your help. ~James
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 14:23 -0700, James D. Parra wrote:
... /data takes up all space on the sdb drive. So you're already using the whole thing. Do you actually have anything on it, or is it just an empty partition?
Yes, there is 155G of important data on the drive. That is why I sent along the fstab and YAST partition output so all could see what I was up against.
I could make a swapfile on the RAID and use swapon, however I was hoping there was a "friendly" way to create a new swap partition on or within a preexisting partition.
Thank you again for your help.
Only if you use a file. Use the following to create a swap file as large as you like, the count= part. In this example 65meg. # dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=65536 Next format the file to be used as swap: # mkswap swapfile (from above command) and then # swapon swapfile. It won't be as fast as a partition for swap, because of filesystem overhead but will work. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
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