How do I set up the swapfile?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: How do I set up the swapfile?
started by: dallas7

Posted by dallas7 on April 19 2004,00:16

I created a swapfile partition but how do I get DSL 0.6.3 to use it? Thanks.

Posted by edard on April 19 2004,13:47

Dallas, I got my swap going this way:
mkswap /dev/hda5
swapon /dev/hda5
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then to check it:
free

Good Luck

Posted by dallas7 on April 27 2004,13:32

That's it! I was leaving out the "/dev" or I was using "/mnt" or something, I forget. It's been over a week since I could sit down with this thing and play. Even after several months with DSL (and Knoppix), I still find some of the command line syntax to be elusive; particularly frustrating is determining the correct file system path. But it's fun learning. I just recently mastered "find."

Thanks for your help and the tip about the free command.

Posted by AwPhuch on April 29 2004,15:37

find is nice

do "whereis" that is a good one too

There are many easy to use commands and such...for basic Linux verbage from a shell try < GOOGLE = linux shell commands > or < GOOGLE - linux beginners guide >...remember with linux GOOGLE is your friend

Hope this helps

Brian
AwPhuch