#!/bin/bash
-#hmmm: should check at each step if it worked.
+# auto-find the scripts, since we might want to run this as sudo.
+export WORKDIR="$( \cd "$(\dirname "$0")" && /bin/pwd )" # obtain the script's working directory.
+source "$WORKDIR/../core/launch_feisty_meow.sh"
+
#hmmm: should be able to add a new swap drive if desired.
+#hmmm: why all the hard-coded paths below?
/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
+test_or_die "creating swap file"
+
+/bin/chmod 600 /var/swap.1
+test_or_die "setting swap file permissions"
/sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
+test_or_die "formatting swap file as swap partition"
/sbin/swapon /var/swap.1
+test_or_die "enabling new swap partition"
free