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How to set up swap partition?
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Steps involved in setting up swap partition:

Create a partition using a partitioning program (fdisk/sfdisk/parted) 
Set partition id type to 0x82.       
Create the signature on the partition using the mkswap command
# mkswap  -v1  /dev/hdb3
Add an entry for the swap in /etc/fstab file as:
/dev/hdb3   swap   swap   defaults    0   0
Activate the swap partition using
# swapon -a
Check the swap partition status using
# swapon  -s   Your Comment




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