Re: swap spread across multiple disks?

[Tim <tg@cityscape.net>]

i think you have to do a "swapon /dev/XXXX"...



Charles Menzes wrote:
> 
> all-
> 
> is it possible for linux to have its swap file spread across multiple
> disks? i just finished a new redhat install, and selected two partitions
> as swap space with fstype 82.
> however, now that the machine has rebooted after install, I still only see
> one swap space set up:
> 
> [charles@apothecary charles]$ more /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda7               /                       ext2    defaults        1
> 1
> /dev/hda1               /boot                   ext2    defaults        1
> 2
> /dev/hdc5               /home                   ext2    defaults        1
> 2
> /dev/hdb7               /mirror                 ext2    defaults        1
> 2
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0
> 0
> /dev/hda6               /redhat                 ext2    defaults        1
> 2
> /dev/hdb6               /tmp                    ext2    defaults        1
> 2
> /dev/hdc1               /usr                    ext2    defaults        1
> 2
> /dev/hdb1               /var                    ext2    defaults        1
> 2
> /dev/hda5               swap                    swap    defaults        0
> 0
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             ext2    noauto,owner    0
> 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0
> 0
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0
> 0
> 
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