Swap file/partition?

[quadomatic]

Is there a guide to setting up a swap file/swap partition? I'm not a fan of Midori, and Firefox yearns for more ram.

 

[gruso]

From post #4:


http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/58795-solved-automatically-assign-swap-file-at-startup

 

[quadomatic]

Thanks, ended up making a swap file though:


sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/EXTREME/swap.swap bs=1M count=512


sudo mkswap /media/EXTREME/swap.swap


Then I added lines to my fstab:


/dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/EXTREME vfat umask=000,auto,rw,user,exec,dev,async 0 0


/media/EXTREME/swap.swap none swap sw 0 0


Hope this helps!

 

[Austin25]

Nice naming system. :rolleyes:

 

[Coldbird]

That approach you described however isn't exactly optimal you know... as it forces the SD card, for whatever reason that is, into Read-Only mode. :mellow:

 

[quadomatic]

I noticed lol, I added umask=000, and it's RW now...i'll edit my lines above

 

[kloplop321]

I didn't follow any guide, I just made a swap file, and my card is still in read and write.


(And yes, I know it is in use because free doesn't say 0 used for swap)

 

[Neelix]

As a point of interest, Stuckie's Extend Utils can also be used to create a swap file as described in the wiki. This was how I setup the swap file I am currently using.