From: Nicholas Clark (skoink@home.com)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 03:42:17 CET
To make create/initalize swap space, you 1) make a swap partition in
fdisk, 2) format it with 'mkswap /dev/hd{foo}' , 3) turn it on with
'swapon /dev/hd{foo}' , and 4) (not mandatory usually, unless you run
swapon -a) add it to your fstab.
Done!
Edward Gardner wrote:
>
> How do I create the swap space. 486, 4megs ram, 80 meg HD
>
> It tells me it must create the space, but it then seems to fail creating it. Should I use FDISK and mkae an actual swap partition?
>
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