Re: [ILUG-BOM] adding swap to existing install

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