TSM Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 I would like to understand how to do 2 things. Would someone please explain them to me like I was a small child? Don't leave any steps out, or assume I know anything. How can I setup another flash drive to be used for dedicated swap? How would I setup a hard drive for the same thing? Don't leave out any details please? Thanks, Link to comment
dcoens Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 This is an old thread, but I had the same question and had to figure it out the long way. I thought that I would share my process and results. First off I only have 1MB of memory installed and wanted to get a swap partition so it would stop killing my apps. I simply installed a second USB stick (2MB) as I did not want a swap file on my unraid USB (swap files are hard on USBs over the long term (read/writes)). I did not care about the add on USB stick since they are cheep although they may not be as fast. Anyhow this method worked great and my system has a 2MB swap partition and now I can run many more addons. Its been running for 2 months now with no issues. I am using unraid version 5 RC-5. 1. Need to find out what your USB stick name is... cat /proc/partitions this will get a list of drives. you just need to figure out what witch one is the USB. I just looked for the 2MB one. 2. Need to make a swap drive. WARNING the -f will erase any drive that is put after the /dev/. you,ve been warned! mkswap -f /dev/"drive from above" mine line was mkswap -f /dev/sdg 3. Need to make your system use the swap partition. swapon /dev/"drive from above" so my line was swapon /dev/sdg 4. now you can confirm that it is working by using "top" as it shows memory and all processes. Note CTRL C to quit top. top Link to comment
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