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| Oh; wasn't paying attention. If you've actually got an unused partition, skip the dd stuff, and just mkswap it. (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) You can do it this way: dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=768000 mkswap -v1 swapfile sync swapon swapfile Note that on a 2.0 series kernel, the max size of a swap space is 128M. You'll need something 2.2 or so. (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Kevin Loch: (...) Roughly the same would work in Linux. The problem is to format and mount the partition. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Kevin Loch <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:FI2Iy0.n4r@lugnet.com... (...) I added a link to the Datsville page: (URL) don't have an ftp utility yet. -John Van (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| I forgot a footnote: [...] (...) 1) Unless NT counts. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk> wrote in message news:FI2I4t.LI4@lugnet.com... (...) I changed my swapfile disk to one with 1 Gb free space, so maybe that will work better. -John Van (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| In solaris: If foo is a 1G *filesystem* then: mkfile 768m /foo/swapfile swap -a /foo/swapfile would give you an additional 768 MB of virtual memory I'm not sure about linux Also, That zip file wasn't accessable, could you upload it to (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) [...] (...) I found out how to solve the PNG problem - and that I only have memory+swap space for the first 65608 lines of the (65649 lines long) POV file. I have an "unused"[1] 1 Gb partition on my disk. Can anybody suggest how I can format (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Go blowhole! (1) Cheers, - jsproat 1. Another "name that reference"... :-, (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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