[SunHELP] increasing swap space on the fly

Low, Adam sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Thu Apr 19 03:10:02 CDT 2001


You'll need to make sure you have space on that drive to increase the size of the swap partition, the swap partition is the only partition you can safely resize without losing data, you'll probably not be able to re-size as its unlikely you have unallocated space on that disk so alternatively you can use the 'swap' command to create a swap file on another partition and add it to the overall swap.

This link should be useful for creating swap files: http://www.meangene.com/notes/swap.html

Adam


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katsuyoshi Charles M. Civ PACAF AIS
> [mailto:Charles.Katsuyoshi at hickam.af.mil]
> Sent: 18 April 2001 20:53
> To: 'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: [SunHELP] increasing swap space on the fly
> 
> 
> In Solaris 7 is it possible to increase the swap space on a 
> secondary disk
> (which has data on it already) on the fly with out corrupting 
> the data that
> is already resident on the disk?
> 
> 
>  <<Charles M. Katsuyoshi (E-mail).vcf>> 
> 



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