Finally adding that swap file

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 02:16:23 UTC 2005


On 10/30/05, Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 10/29/05, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> >
> >>I think it is probably better to add the entry to /etc/fstab and use swapon -a
> >>so that you can just make changes to /etc/fstab and not have to muck with
> >>rc.local after every swapfile change.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Thanks. I dont intend to change swapfiles ever again! So in that sense
> > I will add the line to /etc/fstab, and add "swapon -a" to the end of
> > rc.local. I just want to hear someone say "You wont break anything"
> > before I do that.
>
> "swapon -a" uses /etc/fstab to find swap files and partitions.  If you
> don't want to put an entry in /etc/fstab, then you have to give swapon
> an argument that explicitly identifies the swap file or partition.
>
> Bob Nichols         Yes, "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
>

I have no problem modifying fstab, I just want to know that I'm not
causing any damage. I'm no system admin here, and I would have no way
of fixing it if I broke something and couldn't boot if I couldn't post
here. So I'm double checking before I break something.

Dotan

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