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Linux Swap Space Mini-HOWTO

Rahul Sundaram [email protected]

1. Introduction

2. What you need

3. Recent Changes and versions

4. Administrative

• 4.1 Copyright
• 4.2 Disclaimer

5. Before you begin

6. The Procedure

• 6.1 Turn off swapping and create a DOS partition
• 6.2 Tell Windows the location of the new swap file
• 6.3 Back up the Total Special Sectors
• 6.4 Modify the initialization and shutdown scripts to handle our new configuration
• 6.5 Reenable swapping

7. A couple of notes

8. What are we exactly doing ?

9. The swapinit.sh script

10. The swaphalt.sh script

11. The msinfo.sh script

12. The original msinfo file

13. Acknowledgements, feedback and dedication

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