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Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Monday, March 1, 2004 7:22:49 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Monday, March 1, 2004 7:19:39 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
@@ -51,9 +51,5 @@
fdisk(8), swapon(8)
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-Question:
After I create a swapfile (with dd), call mkswap
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on it, call swapon, do I need to edit /etc/fstab so the
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swapfile will be remounted upon next boot? More details
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than just "in some boot script" would be nice.
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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 Red Hat, 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