Will it use the actual swap partition or only one 
of them ?? just a question ??
or should it use both and the new swap would be more
or would it waste the swap partition ???



Hiten.

--- "James D. Parra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. This worked out well.
> 
> I added "swapon swapfile" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> 
> James 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonard den Ottolander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 2:05 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Help --need to increase swap partition on RH9
> 
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> > How can I increase the swap size on production system? We added
> more RAM
> > and I need to increase the swap space.
> 
>  You could run parted and resize the partition that way. You will
> need 
> to reboot/reinit the machine in that case. Another option is to
> create 
> a swapfile on a partition that has enough space left. In the case you
> 
> use /home for this the procedure would be:
> 
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/swapfile bs=1k count=Xk
> # mkswap -f /home/swapfile
> # swapon /home/swapfile
> 

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