[ale] Swap space,

[Ken Nagorski]

Yes,

	It hangs for like 3-4 minutes when it says adding swap during the
boot process


Thank
Ken

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Yu, Jerry wrote:

> 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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