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Description

I managed to activate swap on lafonera. it uses every swap file made on any attached usbstick for example with

dd if=/dev/zero of=swap bs=1k count=21024
mkswap swap

here is how

• edit the file /etc/opkg.conf and replace the first fine with this:

src snapshots http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/openwrt/fon-ng/mips/
opkg update; opkg install swap-utils libblkid libuuid

• put this to /etc/init.d/swap

vi /etc/init.d/swap

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
# Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Karoly "Stone" Juhasz
START=40
start() {
      [ -f /sbin/swapon ] && {
              echo "Activating swap..."
              find /tmp/mounts/ -follow -name swap -exec echo '  {}' \; -exec swapon{} \;
              }
        }
stop()  {
      [ -f /sbin/swapoff ] && {
              echo "Deactivating swap..."
              swapoff -a
              }
        }

• after you saved the file, don't forget to

chmod +x /etc/init.d/swap

• to start it just do

/etc/init.d/swap start

• and to stop

/etc/init.d/swap stop

optional

• if you want to you can install nano (it is in the new repo you just added), which I prefer over vi as the default editor

opkg install nano

Contributions

• Stone (Fonosfera mailinglist 07/07/2009)