Moving Swap file

Andy Graybeal andy.graybeal at casanueva.com
Tue Mar 15 13:00:49 UTC 2011


Hello,
I'd like to move our swap file onto our RAID array.

This is my fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
/dev/mapper/buddleia_vg-root_lv /               ext4 
relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/mapper/data_vg-home_lv /home           ext4    relatime        0 
     2
/dev/mapper/data_vg-srv_lv /srv            ext4    acl,relatime        0 
       2
/dev/mapper/buddleia_vg-swap_lv none            swap    sw 
0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
/dev/sdf1	/media/maxtor	ntfs-3g		rw			0	0
root at buddleia:~#

/srv is where all our data lives.

Should I make a swap file?  I'm reading this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq

It looks like making a swap partition would be best, but I'm afraid to 
mess around with partitions because I'm afraid of messing up.  I'd 
rather do this when I have some downtime.   Maybe re-do the whole 
partitions scheme.

Can I simply follow the SwapFaq instructions for making a swapfile and 
comment out my current swap partition in fstab?

thanks,
Andy




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