[ale] "mkfile" ?

[Robert L. Harris]

  I'm looking at making a file, 256Meg or the like to turn into swap space
on an existing system.  On my suns I can' just do a:

mkfile 256M SwapFile_01

Can Linux currently use a file on the root partition as swap space?  Is
there an equiv to mkswap?


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 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

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