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Nov 07 2008

Swap File

Published by dave under linux, solaris

Need more swap but not more disk space to create a partition? Add a temporary swap file.
 
Solaris
[root@solaris]# mkfile 1024m /export/tmpswap
[root@solaris]# swap -a /export/tmpswap
[root@solaris]# swap -l

swapfile
 dev
 swaplo 
 blocks
 free

/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 
 55,65 
 8
 4160824 
 4160824 

/export/tmpswap
 -
 8
 2097144
 2097144

 
Linux
[root@linux]# dd if=/dev/zero of=tmpswap bs=1024 count=10240
[root@linux]# 10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.528435 seconds, 19.8 MB/s
[root@linux]# mkswap tmpswap
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 10481 kB
[root@linux]# swapon tmpswap
[root@linux]# [...]

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