[NTLUG:Discuss] Swap Space

[MadHat]

At 02:54 PM 2/2/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Does anyone know if it is possible to "mount" swap space
>on the fly in multi user mode?  I have a production system
>running RedHat 5.2 and somehow the entry for swap in /etc/fstab
>got deleted prior to my last re-boot.  So now I have no swap
>space.  There is a hard drive partition already set up, I would
>just like to tell the kernel to use it without having to re-boot....

look at (man) mkswap and swapon commands.  I don't remember the details, 
but it should be something fairly simple...  You may also have to use the 
dd command to create the swap file first...

Sorry I don't have more details.

>TIA,
>
>George
>
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