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VPS for Oracle, requires SWAP partition [message #412] Wed, 23 November 2005 19:14 Go to previous message
Eric Sammons is currently offline  Eric Sammons
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Trying to install Oracle into a VPS, Oracle for testing requires at least 1024 MB of SWAP defined. I have had no luck figuring out how to create a SWAP device within my RHEL VPS. Anyone have any ideas how I can create a SWAP within my VPS?

I have attempted the following,
# MAKDEV zero (/dev/zero didn't exist)
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swapfile bs=1024 count=1000000
# mkswap /tmp/swapfile
# swapon -a /tmp/swapfile
swapon: /tmp/swapfile: Operation not permitted
# swapon -s
swapon: /proc/swaps: No such file or directory

Thanks!
 
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