[SlugBug] Re: Partitioning

[Andy Davidson]

On 13 Dec 2004, at 15:22, Steve Tickle wrote:

> I configured a webserver some time ago and somehow forgot to include a 
> swap partition (either that or the install program got its knickers in 
> a twist). I've since implemented a swap file and this seems to work ok 
> but I was wondering if I can retrospectively create a swap partition 
> without totally stuffing up the data on the existing partitions. OS is 
> Debian 3.0 stable (Woody)

You could have a swap file as well as, or instead of a swap partition.

To create a 2GB swap file calculate block size :

    factory:~ andy$ echo "2048 * 1024" |bc
    2097152

Create that space on disk :

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1024 count=2097152

Turn it into swap :

mkswap /swap
swapon /swap


/etc/fstab to add it automatically.

Andy