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SWAP problem upgrading to 7.2

SWAP problem upgrading to 7.2

Post by Curtis Ca » Sun, 25 Nov 2001 05:23:59



Hi,
  I'm having a problem with my swap space.  I was upgrading my system
from RedHat 6.1 to 7.2 and during the upgrade process I was notified
that I should increase the size of my swap. I did so, but it put the
swap partition in "/".  During the installation, I received a message
that I didn't have enough space in my "/" directory. I exited the
install and tried to clean out my "/" directory of some files I was
sure I could move. I restarted the install and this time it didn't
mention the swap issue, but there still wasn't sufficient space to
complete the install ( "/" only).  Is there anyway to move this swap
space to another partition? Also, when I would re-boot under 6.1 the
swap space was still on a separate partition, but the install seems to
attempt to move it to the "/" partition.

Curtis Card

 
 
 
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SWAP problem upgrading to 7.2

Post by Robert Heilin » Sun, 25 Nov 2001 10:16:42



> Hi,
>   I'm having a problem with my swap space.  I was upgrading my system
> from RedHat 6.1 to 7.2 and during the upgrade process I was notified
> that I should increase the size of my swap. I did so, but it put the
> swap partition in "/".

The worst place to put it. It should preferably have its own partition on
a HD that is on a different IDE channel. I use Partition Magic to set up
my partitions before install, but you can also use Disk Druid or Linux
fdisk.

Quote:> During the installation, I received a message
> that I didn't have enough space in my "/" directory. I exited the
> install and tried to clean out my "/" directory of some files I was
> sure I could move. I restarted the install and this time it didn't
> mention the swap issue, but there still wasn't sufficient space to
> complete the install ( "/" only).

You haven't mentioned how many HD's you have and their sizes so it's
difficult to comment.

Quote:> Is there anyway to move this swap
> space to another partition? Also, when I would re-boot under 6.1 the
> swap space was still on a separate partition, but the install seems to
> attempt to move it to the "/" partition.

You should be getting partitioning options during install.

Quote:> Curtis Card

Bob

 
 
 
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1. Upgrade to RedHat 7.2 and SWAP

We plan to upgrade our servers from RedHat 6.2 to RedHat 7.2 and
kicked-around the issues/concerns of doing a complete re-image Vs.
upgrading.  For testing we had a development server running 6.2 and
did an UPGRADE, which went surprisingly smooth, except for how the
upgrade handled the current SWAP partitions.

For better performance I split SWAP across drives.  In this case
across 2 drives:

sda
/dev/sda1  /boot
/dev/sda2  SWAP
/dev/sda3  Mount point

sdb
/dev/sdb1  SWAP
/dev/sdb4  Mount point
/dev/sdb5  Mount point

The upgrade didn't consider the current SWAP partitions and created
one big SWAP file as /home/SWAP.  During the upgrade I tried
everything I knew to avoid creating this (/home/SWAP) file but was
forced to.   Now I have 3 SWAP areas, the 2 original (dev/sda2,
/dev/sdb1) and the one that the upgrade created (/home/SWAP).

Two questions:

1) Is there a way to avoid this when upgrading?
2) Is it OK if I delete the /home/SWAP file (what are the issues with
doing
   this)?

Thanks for any feedback!

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