Merge branch 'master' of feistymeow.org:feisty_meow

[feisty_meow.git] / scripts / system / add_swap_mount.sh

diff --git a/scripts/system/add_swap_mount.sh b/scripts/system/add_swap_mount.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# 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
+