I am going to install Oracle XE on Ubuntu, for which I require 1 GB of swap. I already have 512 MB of swap space. I intend to add a 1GB swap partition. Can I do it to an xisting install? Say, by creating the partition and adding the corresponding entry to fstab?
Sometime on Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 05:34:14PM +0530, rohit bhute said:
I am going to install Oracle XE on Ubuntu, for which I require 1 GB of swap. I already have 512 MB of swap space. I intend to add a 1GB swap partition. Can I do it to an xisting install? Say, by creating the partition and adding the corresponding entry to fstab?
You can do that. Just create a new partition, label/format it as linux swap and refer it from fstab.
You could even add file based swap on the fly.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/boot/swapfile1 bs=512 count=1048576 # mkswap /boot/swapfile1 # swapon /boot/swapfile1
That should create extra 512MiB of swapspace for you without creating any partitions.
Anurag
On 8/18/06, rohit bhute rvbhute@gmail.com wrote:
I am going to install Oracle XE on Ubuntu, for which I require 1 GB of swap. I already have 512 MB of swap space. I intend to add a 1GB swap partition. Can I do it to an xisting install? Say, by creating the partition and adding the corresponding entry to fstab?
Sure you can do it. Extend your 512 MB partition to 1GB using GParted. and add the /dev/<devicename> in fstab and use it.
FYI: you can also make ur 512 MB parition to act as swap for temporary purpose using command.
swapon /dev/<device-name>
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