Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual page 172

4 Check the current available swap spaces with the command
5 To enable this swap file permanently, add the following line to /etc/fstab:
12.1.5 Partitioning and LVM
From the expert partitioner, access the LVM configuration with Volume Management.
However, if a working LVM configuration already exists on your system, it is automat-
ically activated as soon as you enter the LVM configuration for the first time in a session.
In this case, any disks containing a partition belonging to an activated volume group
cannot be repartitioned because the Linux kernel cannot reread the modified partition
table of a hard disk when any partition on this disk is in use. However, if you already
have a functioning LVM configuration on your system, physical repartitioning should
not be necessary. Instead, change the configuration of the logical volumes.
At the beginning of the physical volumes (PVs), information about the volume is written
to the partition. To reuse such a partition for other non-LVM purposes, it is advisable
to delete the beginning of this volume. For example, in the VG system and PV /dev/
sda2, do this with the command dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda2 bs=512
count=1.
WARNING: File System for Booting
The file system used for booting (the root file system or /boot) must not be
stored on an LVM logical volume. Instead, store it on a normal physical partition.
For more details about LVM, see the Storage Administration Guide.
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cat /proc/swaps
Note, that at this point this is only temporary swap space. After the next reboot,
it is not used anymore.
/var/lib/swap/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0