creation of swap space after installation

[mummaneni]

hi everybody

I am using is fedora 4

i forgot to give the swap space while installation

i have free space on my disk and i want to add swap space.

please tell me how to add the swap space

thanks
inadvance

[anomie]

Let's see:

1. Create the swap partition using fdisk.
2. Set up the swap area using mkswap.
3. Activate the swap area using swapon.
4. Set up an /etc/fstab entry for it. You can use something like:

/dev/hda3            swap                 swap       defaults                0 0

This assumes the swap partition is fourth partition of first physical drive. You will want to adjust accordingly for yourself. I think that should do it.

[puntmuts]

You can use a swap file as well.

Here is an example for a swap file:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/local/swapfile bs=1000000 count=200 (200mb swap file)
chmod 600 /usr/local/swapfile
mkswap /usr/loca/swapfile
swapon /usr/local/swapfile

Then add this line to your /etc/fstab
/usr/local/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0