Re: How to setup SWAP partition for diskless client

[Juha Tuomala <jtuomala@juomala.asdf.org>]

On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Karsten Brinkmann wrote:
> > How do I set up the SWAP partition for a Linux diskless client using a Linux
> > server's diskspace?  Thanks.

I'm very intrested in this particular subject too.

> Then, you can create a swapfile on the client's root partition with
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/SWAPFILE bs=1k count=20000 
> (for a 20 MB swap file).
 
> Then you should do a mkswap /SWAPFILE <filesize> and put a swapon in the
> system start scripts of your client. 

How it should be used from client side? As swap partition or
as swap file? 

	#> swapon ???  ???? ???

I once tried this long time ago, and couldn't find
anywhere how to use it. 

> Again, you need the NFS swap kernel patch to do so.

Yep, this compiled just fine.

Juha

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