Re: Swap partition for Oracle 8.1.6 install on Red Hat 7.0.

From: Herman <herman_at_ludd.luth.se>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 14:31:52 GMT
Message-ID: <srwd7.13775$e5.1953656@newsb.telia.net>

As root;
1. Create a file with the size you want to increase your swap. (mkfile 600m /mydisk/myswapfile)
2. Add the file as swap space. (swap -a /mydisk/myswapfile)

This should let you install and run Oracle on your system. You should also probably add an entry to /etc/vfstab or similar file on your system in order to automatically add your file to swap space on system startup, should you have power failure a late night. (see manpage for swap)

Best regards,

Herman Ofenböck

> Can anyone recommend a way to increase the size of an existing swap
> partition to the Oracle-recommended 3 times system memory? Basically,
> how do I increase the size of an existing swap partition?
>
> Thanks.
Received on Sun Aug 12 2001 - 09:31:52 CDT