as Ralph said -- or, since I remember you having several HDs, could use swapoff /dev/hdx* and swapon /dev/hdy* selectively by looking at 'cat /proc/swaps' or 'swapon -s'. Look at mkswap to create a swap partion or file on another drive.
Q to all: is the old vs. new swap style issue still relevant these days (old style being limited to 128MB usable space) -- I made a 500 MB swap partition for my 265MB RAM, and top shows it all as avail. -so I'm assuming I config'ed and use the new style ? cat /proc/cpuinfo didn't tell me any more either ............. Horst On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Ralph Zeller wrote: > swapoff -a > > On 12/31/02 09am, Dexter Graphic wrote: > > I just tried copying my partitions one at a time with DMA support turned > > on and there were no DMA errors reported. You may recall that when I copied > > the entire drive at once (dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1k) with DMA turned > > on I got DMA and CRC errors in both Debian and Red Hat. So I wonder if this > > may have been caused by copying my active swap partition? Is there any way to > > turn off use of the swap portion during my dd backup process? -Dex > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
