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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 8:51:01 am | by JohnMcPherson | |
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fdisk(8), swapon(8)
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__After I create a swapfile (with dd), call mkswap on it, call swapon, do I need to edit /etc/fstab so the swapfile will be remounted upon next boot? More details than just "in some boot script" would be nice.__ :
It's distro-specific; for example on DebianLinux, there is an /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh and mountall.sh which run swapon(8) after mounting swap partitions from the fstab(5) file. So, just put it in /etc/fstab as type ''swap'', and your distro should deal with it automatically
+__After I create a swapfile (with dd), call mkswap on it, call swapon, do I need to edit /etc/fstab so the swapfile will be remounted upon next boot? More details than just "in some boot script" would be nice.__
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It's distro-specific; for example on DebianLinux, there is an /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh and mountall.sh which run swapon(8) after mounting swap partitions from the fstab(5) file. So, just put it in /etc/fstab as type ''swap'', and your distro should deal with it automatically. Similarly, [Slackware] does ''swapon -a'' in its /etc/rc.d/rc.S startup script. According to the swapon(8) manpage, "swapon -a" mounts swap devices listed in /etc/fstab. Perhaps swap __files__ (rather than swap __partitions__) need to be handled differently?
