[ale] Swap space,

[Yu, Jerry]

oh, sorry that I mis-read it as you didn't make swap partition...
could you be more specific about what do you mean "swap partitions
sometimes cause it to hang?"


On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Ken Nagorski wrote:

#Well yeah, 
#
#	I have looked at man mkswap. But this is what is weird, the
#mountall script has this in it...
#swapon -a 2> /dev/null
#
#Which shouldn't be a problem cause all the fstab looks like this.
#/dev/sda2       none            swap    sw                      0       0
#
#So even if it's 10megs or 128megs, as long as it's /dev/sda2 it should be
#fine. I am doing a mkswap when I build the partition tables on the server
#I am setting up. 
#
#Any suggestion? Thanks
#Ken
#
#
#On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Yu, Jerry wrote:
#
#> Assuming same HDD on all those machines, then you'd better off
#> 
#> 0)  dump the partition table off the working system to a text file
#> 
#> Then, on every new system:
#> 1) write the partition table to the HDD. repeat 0 and 1 if you have
#> multiple HDD.
#> 2) mkswap of /dev/sda2
#> 3) do you other untar routine
#> 
#> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Ken Nagorski wrote:
#> 
#> #Hi, 
#> #
#> #	Anyone know how I change the swap space on a linux machine? What I
#> #am doing is moving over tar balls of a working system and just untarring
#> #them from a boot disk. It works great except the swap partitions sometimes
#> #cause it to hang? Anyone know a way around this? I am making the same 128M
#> #swap partitions on /dev/sda2 on all the machines...
#> #
#> #Thank you
#> #Ken
#> #
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Jerry Z. Yu				mailto: z.yu at ptek.com
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