topic Re: extend swap in Red Hat Version 4 in Operating System - Linux

extend swap in Red Hat Version 4

MikeL_4 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:34:56 GMT

I need to add a second swap volume on Red Hat server...

Can you tell me steps to add it using LVM space to create the swap in ....

Thanks

Re: extend swap in Red Hat Version 4

Nuwan Alwis — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:32:19 GMT

Hi Mike,
Hope this will provide enough info
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1331079

Please let me know if u need more than this.

Good Luck..!

Re: extend swap in Red Hat Version 4

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:55:44 GMT

Shalom,

There are some who believe swap should not be done in LVM. Just so you know. I am not one of them.

lvcreate -L

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-1133

swapon is the key command, don't use newfs like it is a new file system.

SEP
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