using a file for swap space?

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 04:19:14PM +1000, Simon Burton wrote:

[snip]

> have net connection. There is not much
> room to move, and short of sticking the HD
> in a bigger machine, where can i find some
> swap? in a file? seems i want opposite of
> ramdisk, ie. diskram :)

Yes, you can swap to a file. Use dd if=/dev/zero count=<blocks> bs=<blocksize>
to create the file and then specify it instead of a partition.

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