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About adding swap space

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imix

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Dec 4, 2002
12
US
Hi all,
Any one knows either exist any risk or which could be the risk when we adding swap space ?

Regards / Imix
 
I just looking for a document or bolletin that it seem SUN sent about add swap space, i want know if it is true.

I was thingking that people that told me about only showed up...

Do you have any information about that...?, because i could not find it....I going to appreciate a lot your help.


Regards / Imix
 
No problem adding swap space. Use swap -a file_name on a Sun box. Do not forget to modify /etc/vfstab to reflect the addition. Too bad I.T. is not cash business

Luc Foata
Unix sysadmin, Oracle DBA
 
Luc,

I have added some swap space on unix as follows:

mkfile 2000M /swap2
swap -a /swap2

and everything is ok, to make this change permanent (after reboot) I need to add something in /etc/vfstab, not quite sure what needs to be added.

Can you please specify what needs to be added.

Thanks
 
This:

[tt]#device device mount FS fsck mount mount
#to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options
/swap2 - - swap - no -[/tt]

Of course the column headings are probably already there, no need to add them again!

Annihilannic.
 
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