Linux Swap Problem

[danhodges99]

Hey all,

We have a small desktop PC running RedHat 8. This works fine, but we had major performance probs due to swap being on the same HD. We added a second HD, and would like to put swap on this disk only, but can't find an option in the RedHat OS to specify where to put a swap area. Does anybody know a command/way to do this?

Thanks.

 

[Morsing]

1. Use 'fdisk' to create a partition with ID 82
2. Run 'mkswap <partition'
3. Run 'swapon <partition>'

And you're done.

To start this up on future reboots add a line to fstab:

/dev/<parttition> none swap defaults 0 0 # (From memory)

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support