file system swap

[unixkid]

Cant get pass this error. No matter what text I give it. Just trying to add a 2gb swap file.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile1 bs=1024 count=2147483648
6171601+0 records in
6171600+0 records out

# mkswap swapfile1
mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40kB
Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] [-pPAGESZ] /dev/name [blocks]

 

[fluid11]

Any reason why you don't want a swap partition instead? If you do, run fdisk and create a 2Gb partition set to type 82, which is Linux swap. Then run "mkswap /dev/hda5", or whatever partition number the swap partition resides on.

Remember to add the new swap partition to the /etc/fstab file. I think you need to run the "swapon" command after you create the partition to actually start using it.

ChrisP