Beside some limitations with cubox's hardware I love my cubox-i 4x4. But it is hard to find good documentation about how to many things.
Reading this forum and other webs I made many of my goals.
After installing Debian from this web site and using the nand-sata-install script the system works from the hard drive. This hard drive has two partitions, the main and big one and one small, 4GB, swap partition, but the system is not using it, so I would like to know if I can make the system use it.
I found this how to:
9. Setting Up Swap Space
9.1. Swap Files
Normally, there are only two steps to setting up swap space, creating the partition and adding it to /etc/fstab. A typical fstab entry for a swap partition at /dev/hda6 would look like this:
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
The next time you reboot, the initialization scripts will activate it automatically and there's nothing more to be done.
However, if you want to make use of it right away, you'll need to activate it maually. As root, type:
mkswap -f /dev/hda6
swapon /dev/hda6
9.2. Swap Files
There might be times when you've run out of swap space and it is not practical to repartition a drive or add a new one. In this case, you can use a regular file in an ordinary partition. All you have to do is create a file of the size you want
This invocation creates a file called my_swap in /var. It is 128 Mb long (128 x 1024 = 131072). Initially, it is filled with zeros. However, mkswap marks it as swap space and swapon tells the kernel to start using it as swap space. When you are done with it,
swapoff /var/my_swap
rm /var/my_swap
is it fine and how do I make it for my 4GB partition?
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Lothar
Hi,
Beside some limitations with cubox's hardware I love my cubox-i 4x4. But it is hard to find good documentation about how to many things.
Reading this forum and other webs I made many of my goals.
After installing Debian from this web site and using the nand-sata-install script the system works from the hard drive. This hard drive has two partitions, the main and big one and one small, 4GB, swap partition, but the system is not using it, so I would like to know if I can make the system use it.
I found this how to:
9. Setting Up Swap Space
9.1. Swap Files
Normally, there are only two steps to setting up swap space, creating the partition and adding it to /etc/fstab. A typical fstab entry for a swap partition at /dev/hda6 would look like this:
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
The next time you reboot, the initialization scripts will activate it automatically and there's nothing more to be done.
However, if you want to make use of it right away, you'll need to activate it maually. As root, type:
mkswap -f /dev/hda6
swapon /dev/hda6
9.2. Swap Files
There might be times when you've run out of swap space and it is not practical to repartition a drive or add a new one. In this case, you can use a regular file in an ordinary partition. All you have to do is create a file of the size you want
dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/my_swap bs=1024 count=131072
and activate it
mkswap -f /var/my_swap
swapon /var/my_swap
This invocation creates a file called my_swap in /var. It is 128 Mb long (128 x 1024 = 131072). Initially, it is filled with zeros. However, mkswap marks it as swap space and swapon tells the kernel to start using it as swap space. When you are done with it,
swapoff /var/my_swap
rm /var/my_swap
is it fine and how do I make it for my 4GB partition?
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