[SlugBug] Re: Partitioning

[Mike Cardwell]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Andy Davidson wrote:

> 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

A slightly simpler method to generate the 2GB file:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1024k count=2000

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