On Monday 17 May 2010 01:55:23 Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> ah, figured it out - had to be the whole disk, not a partition.

As far as I know you can define a partition, or even a file as swap space.  
You'll need to set a swap fs on them first before you can use them and then it 
is a matter of swapon /dev/what_ever.

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Regards,
Mick