This does not answer your question directly, but can you use a swap
file instead?

A swap file is just as fast as a swap partiion. You also control the
swap file size.

I like the swap file route since I can configure it with a startup
script in Scalr.net.

Some links, if you are not familiar with swap files:

How-To
http://linux.com/news/software/applications/8208-all-about-linux-swap-space
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-add-a-swap-file-howto/

For discussions on the relative speeds/performances:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging (see Linux section)
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/29/3
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326


On Jul 24, 6:36 pm, Rod Frey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I configured an xlarge instance to use as a db machine.  It doesn't
> seem to have a swap partition configured in fstab.
>
> I remember from another issue a few months ago that synchronizing
> doesn't bundle /etc/fstab, or at least it didn't.  Swap partiitions
> are configured on other instances I'm running, which are all small
> instances.
>
> How can I configure a swap partition?
>
> Rod

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