Differences between version 5 and predecessor to the previous major change of mkswap(8).
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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Monday, March 1, 2004 7:24:39 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Monday, March 1, 2004 7:22:49 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
@@ -51,5 +51,5 @@
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 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
+; __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
