On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 07:25:24PM BST, Charles Kroeger wrote: > on looking into dphys-swapfile I see what it wants to create is a > swap=16010MByte however when 'checking existing' keeps the configured 2048MB > instead and so does basically nothing. > > How or where does one change this configured amount or remove it so > dphys-swapfile > can create its file. If I remove the /var/swap file it is just recreated. I > noticed > that vim can't edit this file so where is this configuration of 2048 coming > from?
Let me guess, you have 8GB of RAM? The limit you are talking about is hard-coded into /sbin/dphys-swapfile. In order to change it you need to create your own config. man 8 dphys-swapfile /var/swap IS the swap file, not a config one - you can't edit swap. P.S. Please, read the documentation provided. dpkg -L $package_name will show you all the files included in the package (apart from the ones generated by maintainer scripts). If there's not manual or info pages /usr/share/doc/$package_name usually contains some documentation and/or examples. Cheers, -- rjc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120516203420.ga25...@linuxstuff.pl
