On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Ketan wrote:
>
> > guys,
> >
> > how do I increase the swap partition size w/o repartitioning ?
>
> You can't increase partition sizes without repartitioning obviously.
> You can add a swap file though:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swap.file bs=1k count=1024
> mkswap -v1 /tmp/swap.file
> swapon /tmp/swap.file
>
> where count=xxx specifies the size in kilobytes.
i recall we've been here before, but are there any compelling
issues regarding swap files versus swap partitions? as i've
read, the major drawback with using a swap file is that you
have to get to it through the normal ext2 filesystem structure,
which inherently makes it slower.
of course, if you have no room for an extra partition, you
really have no choice. is there some definitive document
that addresses these issues? thanks.
rday
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