RE: Help --need to increase swap partition on RH9 {solved}

["James D. Parra" <JamesP MusicReports com>]

Thanks. This worked out well.

I added "swapon swapfile" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

James 

-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard den Ottolander [mailto:leonardjo hetnet nl]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 2:05 PM
To: redhat-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Help --need to increase swap partition on RH9


Hi James,

> How can I increase the swap size on production system? We added more RAM
> and I need to increase the swap space.

 You could run parted and resize the partition that way. You will need 
to reboot/reinit the machine in that case. Another option is to create 
a swapfile on a partition that has enough space left. In the case you 
use /home for this the procedure would be:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/swapfile bs=1k count=Xk
# mkswap -f /home/swapfile
# swapon /home/swapfile

 Dont forget to add /home/swapfile to /etc/fstab. Using /home might not 
be the best option from a security standpoint, but it is probably the 
partition with the most free space left...

Bye,
Leonard.

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