-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/07 11:28, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:11:36AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: >> Len, Patrick: >> Thanks. Actually, I didn't see the original by Len. >> >> Well, security comes first. Also, the idea of setting >> in a cheap HD was a faulty idea anyway because I am at >> WD Raptor just because cheap HDs didn't work on long >> runs. >> >> The mentioned Tyan mother board has 4 SATA ports, two, >> I suppose, already occupied by raid1. Following the >> suggestion by Len, is that possible to install another >> raid1 (just for additional disk space, say swap) while >> preserving the current Debian amd64 etch on present >> raid1 (Linux driven)? This machine is ssh with Debian >> i386 as graphical interface on another machine so that >> reinstalling everything on new HDs would not be >> attractive. Also, I am pressed to fish some >> computations. >> > > It is possible, swap is dynamic under linux. swapon/swapoff are the > tools you are looking for. > > man swapon
And swap *files* are usable too. You don't need to pre-allocate swap partitions that you would hardly ever use. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGP2IvS9HxQb37XmcRApT3AJ41htSTOGCrWuItPN6iF2mS89wkIQCeOOqC FiCRMOAfymHGwiD3HuwwX+Q= =Sa0x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
