scripts/system/add_swap_mount.sh

   1 #!/bin/bash
   2
   3 # auto-find the scripts, since we might want to run this as sudo.
   4 export WORKDIR="$( \cd "$(\dirname "$0")" && /bin/pwd )"  # obtain the script's working directory.
   5 source "$WORKDIR/../core/launch_feisty_meow.sh"
   6
   7 #hmmm: should be able to add a new swap drive if desired.
   8
   9 #hmmm: why all the hard-coded paths below?
  10
  11 /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
  12 test_or_die "creating swap file"
  13
  14 /bin/chmod 600 /var/swap.1
  15 test_or_die "setting swap file permissions"
  16
  17 /sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
  18 test_or_die "formatting swap file as swap partition"
  19
  20 /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1
  21 test_or_die "enabling new swap partition"
  22
  23 free
  24