Sanity check needed ...

[Debbie Tropiano <debbiet@arlut.utexas.edu>]

Folks -

Short version:
	Is it possible to run a RedHat 6.2 system with just a swapfile
	and not a swap partition (no, I didn't ask if it was the "best
	practice" just if it's *possible* :-)?

Long version:
	The partition table has gotten completely messed up on a RAID 5
	device that contains both the swap partition and the /home filesystem.
	I don't know what happened to it (and I don't think that the box
	got hacked -- more likely it got severely corrupted with the loss
	of some disk drives last week :-).  The rest of the OS is on a 
	RAID 1 device, so is not affected.  Right now we can't rebuild the
	full system, so I'm looking for a way to get it to limp along for
	a few weeks until we can take some *positive* action, thus I just
	need to know if I can comment the swap partition out of the /etc/fstab
	file and setup a swapfile elsewhere to be used.

Thanks for any useful information
Debbie

PS No, I'm not going to upgrade to 7.2 right now.  No, I'm not going to
completely repartition my RAID 5 and re-load everything (that is unless
I really, really have to).  I just want to give the system some swap
space (it doesn't have any now) and not spend too many hours fighting
with this box.
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| Debbie Tropiano                            |  debbiet@arlut.utexas.edu   |
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