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    How to make SWAP file other location than hda1I

    Anyways... i have low memory problem... and i use hda1 as win boot partition (its only 8MB long). Is it bossible to create SWAP on ext2 filesystem?

    The location i want to create the SWAP is dev/mnt/hdc6 and it has ext2 on it.

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    yes and no.

    You may create a swap-partition on /dev/hdc6

    btw: A name like /dev/mnt/hdc6 is a curious mixture of two things:
    The devices are organized on linux in /dev, with /dev/hdc6 being the third device at the hd-controller (a, b, c) and 6 the 6th partition.

    If you mount something, you do this to /mnt/hdc6 by convention, and not in the /dev-tree.

    Now to the question of ext2:
    If you create a swap-partition, you don't put a filesystem on that partion.
    To prepare it for swap, you call fdisk for hdc:
    Code:
    fdisk hdc
    and specify filesystem-type no. 82 (lijnux swap).
    You get a list of fs-types with 'l' as 'list'.

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