[aclug-L] Re: Dual swap partitions

[Jeff Vian <jvian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Add another line in the /etc/fstab file to put in the second swap partition
at boot time.


----- Original Message -----
From: John Reinke <jmreinke@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 4:43 PM
Subject: [aclug-L] Dual swap partitions


> When I originally formatted my 13GB hard drive, I made two 128MB
partitions
> to be used for swap. During installation, I could only specify one
> partition for swap, so that's all I've used. Right now, I'm a little low
on
> RAM for what I'm working on, and I'd like to use both partitions for swap
> if it is possible.
>
> 1) How do I go about getting Linux to recognize and use both partitions
for
> swap?
>
> 2) Are there any performance differences for using two swap partitions as
> opposed to using only one?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
>
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