How To Set Up Swap Partition?

1.	How To Set Up Swap Partition?
Answer» Steps involved in SETTING up swap partition: CREATE a partition using a partitioning program (fdisk/sfdisk/parted) Set partition id type to 0x82. Create the signature on the partition using the mkswap command # mkswap -v1 /dev/hdb3 Add an ENTRY for the swap in /etc/fstab file as: /dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0 Activate the swap partition using # swapon -a Check the swap partition STATUS using # swapon -s Steps involved in setting up swap partition:

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Steps involved in SETTING up swap partition:

Steps involved in setting up swap partition:

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