using a file for swap space?

[David Price]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 04:40:18PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> 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.

In addition to that, I think you'll need to use mkswap to initialise
the file as a swap file.  Also, you can use swapon to test it out (in
addition to adding it to /etc/fstab).

David
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