[Tfug] raid help

[Ronald Sutherland]

Why put a swap file on a raid drive?

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Brian Murphy
<murphy+tfug at email.arizona.edu<murphy%2Btfug at email.arizona.edu>>
wrote:

> Quoting ray reeves <rays51ford at yahoo.com>:
> > I have a nice raid1 array the has been running for some time. A while
> > ago the swap file on one drive became corrupted or otherwise not usable.
> > As a result my system has no swap file to use and memory often is
> > exceeded. I'd like a howto to either disassemble the raid array or to
> > fix the one drive (sda) that has the error.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
>
>
> If a swap partition becomes corrupted, just use mkswap to reformat it
> and then swapon to activate it.  It shouldn't matter that the swap
> partition is mirrored or not.  Both commands have man pages.
>
> Brian
>
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