You need more swap but there’s no more disk space left to create a partition? Here’s a quick and easy fix creating a swap file on the existing filesystem. No reboot needed!
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[root@solaris]$ mkfile 1024m \/export\/tmpswap\n\n[root@solaris]$ swap -a \/export\/tmpswap\n\n[root@solaris]$ swap -l\nswapfile dev swaplo blocks free\n\/dev\/dsk\/c1t0d0s1 55,65 8 4160824 4160824\n\/export\/tmpswap - 8 2097144 \u00a9<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Linux<\/h3>\n\n\n\n[root@linux]$ dd if=\/dev\/zero of=tmpswap bs=1024 count=10240\n10240+0 records in\n10240+0 records out\n10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.528435 seconds, 19.8 MB\/s\n\n[root@linux]$ mkswap tmpswap\nSetting up swapspace version 1, size = 10481 kB\n\n[root@linux]$ swapon tmpswap\n\n[root@linux]$ swapon -s\nFilename Type Size Used Priority\n\/dev\/hda2 partition 409648 0 -1\n\/tmp\/tmpswap file 10232 0 -2<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Do not use swap files on a personal computer that is configured to “suspend to disk” since it requires a dedicated partition to save the memory content while going to hibernation. This is not a problem on servers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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