Creating swap file (for extreme situations only)
mknod /dev/swap b 7 8 #b=block device, 7=use loop driver, 8=loop device number
mkdir /mnt/base-us/swap
cd /mnt/base-us/swap
dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1M count=512
Quote:
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
536870912 bytes (512.0MB) copied, 269.558543 seconds, 1.9MB/s
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losetup /dev/swap /mnt/base-us/swap/swapfile
mkswap /dev/swap
Quote:
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 536866 kB
no label, UUID=4b002686-89e2-4a8d-b9b1-a947538baa3f
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swapon /dev/swap
OR:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/base-us/swap.img bs=1M count=1K # 1GB!
mkswap /mnt/base-us/swap.img
swapon /mnt/base-us/swap.img