[Tfug] raid help

[James Hood]

I'm guessing all of his system's drives are part of the raid array, so he
doesn't really have another option.

James

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Ronald Sutherland <
ronald.sutherland at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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