On Thursday 13 July 2017 12:52:51 Alan Corey wrote: > Try touch /var/swap so one exists? Actually I think you're supposed > to dd a few gigs from /dev/zero in there. I just left the swap file > alone, the reason being that my swap partition is on the end of the > drive which is going to cause head thrashing if it gets used a lot. > So some swap space near where everything else is is good. > > Does your /boot/cmdline.txt still refer to the SD card?
The one on the sd card does not. > Mine now says > root=/dev/sda2 The one on the hard drive that is. > > On 7/13/17, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On Thursday 13 July 2017 12:00:43 Alan Corey wrote: > >> Mine looks like: > >> > >> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > >> /dev/sda1 /boot vfat defaults 0 2 > >> /dev/sda2 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 > >> /dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0 > > > > Reading the manpage, I used: > > /dev/sda2 none swap sw,defaults > > And after a reboot, htop shows swap at 2099 megs. That includes the > > 100 meg swapFILE in /var. To turn that off: > > sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff > > or sudo dphys-swapfile swapon > > > > I just turned it off. That I think can be put into /etc/rc.local as > > it runs as root. But I can't make that work, without or with a sudo > > in front of it. So where can I put it?. > > > > I turned it off, then removed /var/swap. Won't reboot. WTH? THere > > isn't anything in fstab but what I added, and nothing in > > /boot/config.txt or cmdline.txt about swap. I can recover, but the > > most recent edits in the linuxcnc tree haven't been backed up, > > damn!!!!! I'll try a full powerdown before I swap cards to begin the > > recovery. > > > >> And when you reboot you should see it in top as an increase in > >> swap. > >> > >> The only downside I've found is that piclone doesn't know to ignore > >> it. I put mine at the end of 320 GB, now I can't use piclone for > >> backups to SD anymore. But there's been discussion that swap will > >> wear out an SD fast, they're rated by read/write cyccles. > > > > Eggzakly. :) > > > > Thanks Alan. > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." +-Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
