Thanks! I wasn't specifying the blocksize and count correctly. I have a 300 MB swap file now. Cheers,
Hidong Ben Logan wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 05:49:49PM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a machine with an 800 MB swap partition. To run a particular > > application, I need 1,000 MB swap. It appears that I can't create a > > swap file bigger than 4,880 kB. Is this correct? How would I get more > > swap space without having to re-partition? Thanks, > > Do you mean 4,880 MB? (Since 4,880 Kb == 4.88 Mb, you've already got > more than that in your 800Mb swap partition.) I'm not sure what the > size limit on a swap file is--probably either 2 Gb or 4 Gb, but that's > just a guess. The limit used to be 127Mb, but that was changed a > while ago. I've successfully created a 200M swapfile. > > Regardless of that, you can create several swap files. For example, > to create two 1Gig swap files: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile1 bs=1M count=1k > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile2 bs=1M count=1k > > # mkswap /swapfile1 > # mkswap /swapfile2 > > # swapon /swapfile1 > # swapon /swapfile2 > > The "swapon" commands will allow you to start using the swap > immediately instead of having to reboot. The extra swap space should > show up in the output of the "free" command. > > Add a couple of lines to /etc/fstab so that the swap will be utilized > automatically next time you reboot, and you should be fine. > > If you still can't create 1G swapfiles for some reason, just try > dropping the size. For example, you could create four 500M swapfiles > to get the same 2G of swap. Just use bs=1M and count=500 in the dd > commands. > > Two things to note: it's really important to use /dev/zero as the > input file so that there are no "holes" in the swapfile; and be very > careful with the "mkswap" command--if you give it the wrong > device/filename, you could wipe stuff out. :) > > Hope this helps, > Ben > > -- > Ben Logan: ben at wblogan dot net > OpenPGP Key KeyID: A1ADD1F0 > > You are number 6! Who is number one? > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
