Tips: 3 How to create swap File ?

You are in a situation where you need more swap. what do you do - Reinstall ???

No et all,

The trick is to make a file and then tell the swapon program to use it. Here's how to create, for example, a 64 megs swap file on your root partition

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536

This will make a 64 megs (about 68 millions bytes) file on your hard drive. You now need to initialize it:

mkswap /swapfile 65536

sync

And you can then add it to your swap pool:

swapon /swapfile

With that you have 64 megs of swap added. Don't forget to add the swapon command to your startup files so the command will be repeated at each reboot.