Re: [SLE] swap

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:10:21AM -0800, Robert Lewis wrote:
One command I miss from my old Unix days is the ability to
add swap dynamically. That is swap to a file. Some of the
Unix's have a swap command and you can name a file and the
size you wish and swap will start using it.

I did a man on swap but nothing came back!

man mkswap
man swapon
man swapoff

HTH...

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