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Old 08-31-2005   #1 (permalink)
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error when making swap in remastering

i get error when i type
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=700k

the error is
Code:
dd: writing `swapfile': No space left on device
217009+0 records in
217008+0 records out
222216192 bytes transferred in 79.557125 seconds (2793165 bytes/sec)

my swapfile is only 210 MB

but i want to make 700mb

my hdc5 is already mounted
Code:
mount
/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hdb on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro)
/ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,size=194112k)
/UNIONFS on /UNIONFS type unionfs (rw,noatime,dirs=/ramdisk=rw:/KNOPPIX=ro)
/dev/pts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devmode=0666)
automount(pid2055) on /mnt/auto type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2055,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
/dev/hdc5 on /mnt/hdc5 type ext3 (rw)
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Old 09-03-2005   #2 (permalink)
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m8 i think you will have to del the swap partition and make a new one m8 but not 100% on that so i would wait till you get some info from who know if you do or not
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