Swap file

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Gontran wrote:

> * Tom Karickhoff (dragon9166@yahoo.com) wrote:
> >
> > How can I move the swap file from hda to sda?
> >
>
> Supposing your swap partition is sda2. And old swap is hda4.
>
> Make sure sda2 has partition type linux swap (82), then
> % mkswap /dev/sda2
> % swapon /dev/sda2
> % free
> (lots of swap)
> % swapoff /dev/hda4
>
> Edit /etc/fstab and switch out the devices for swap.

Besides just typing 'free', you might want to try 'swapon -s' to see what
swap files/partitions are being used.

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