Move Swap

[carlosponti]

i have an experiment i want to try with moving swap to another spare drive how would i move where my system looks for swap.

basically here is what i want to do:

i have a dual boot slackware and windows 2000 i am going to install a small drive and create a small partition for both windows swap and linux swap. now this can be a discussion area too because i would like people's opinions whether on both windows and linux whether this would make any difference in performance? i am still going to try doing this as an experiment however i am curious of what other people think that are more experienced with linux.

[UgoDeschamps]

Create a partition, give it a swap id, run 'mkswap', do 'swapon'.
and/or
Delete a swap partition.

You can also create a swapfile, e.g from the man page:
dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
and then initialize it.

Repartioning a working system can be tricky, though. If you've got enough RAM, swap's not generally an issue, really. I don't 'manage' mine at all - it's just there at need but I basically forget it's there.

If you've got extra space you can have more than one partition, though, so you might just add to rather than delete or resize.

Anyway - the relevant man pages (fdisk, cfdisk, mkswap, swapon, and so on) have lots of information.



also, you could always... (I just though about this, and it might not work) create a swap partition where ever you feel like creating it, and change the location in your FSTAB!!! on second thought, that is probably the fastest way to do it... but I didnt test it

[sarumont]

Also make sure that you change/add your /etc/fstab entries for where your swap partition is located.

[UgoDeschamps]

create a swap partition where ever you feel like creating it, and change the location in your FSTAB!!!

Also make sure that you change/add your /etc/fstab entries for where your swap partition is located.

Didn't I say so just playing

[krussell]

hello
basically its no matter where your swap lies, but keeping it in the current drive will reduce propagation time.

use fdisk to make/delete swap partition.
make sure you update your swap entry in /etc/fstab (just change the "/dev/hda"...others will remain the way they are.

[krussell]

hello
basically its no matter where your swap lies, but keeping it in the current drive will reduce propagation time.

use fdisk to make/delete swap partition.
make sure you update your swap entry in /etc/fstab (just change the "/dev/hda"...others will remain the way they are.

[carlosponti]

mainly the experiment is for windows because i run games on windows and pretty much everything else on linux. i am just a normal user pretty much. the thing is is windows swap is inherently crappy and i am try this experiment to isolate the swap in windows to see if i get a better performace out of it and to not getting a fragmented swap problem. i just decided to do the same with linux because i am still learning and i need to find stuff to do to gain more knowledge. it may be something if successful on the windows side i do when installing all windows systems is isolate the swap and hide it from the user.