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I need to add 100MB of swap space to my machine. I was trying to use a logical volume.

# lvcreate –name lv_swap2 –size 100M vg
# mkswap /dev/vg/lv_swap2
# swapon /dev/vg/lv_swap2
# vi /etc/fstab
/dev/vg/lv_swap2 swap defaults 0 0

It doesn't work.

Rui F Ribeiro
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You wrote everything right but missed something here: swap swap defaults

# lvcreate –name lv_swap2 –size 100M vg
# mkswap /dev/vg/lv_swap2
# swapon /dev/vg/lv_swap2
# vi /etc/fstab
/dev/vg/lv_swap2 swap swap defaults 0 0

Now it should work.

Chris Davies
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