Exam EX200 topic 1 question 36 discussion

Actual exam question from RedHat's EX200

Question #: 36
Topic #: 1

SIMULATION -
Add a swap partition.
Adding an extra 500M swap partition to your system, this swap partition should mount automatically when the system starts up. Don't remove and modify the existing swap partitions on your system.

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fdisk -cu /dev/vda// in the way of expanding the partition, don't make main partition partx ג€"a /dev/vda mkswap /dev/vdax swapon /dev/vdax swapon ג€"s vi /etc/fstab
/dev/vdaxswapswapdefaults0 0
mount -a

by ALBY19 at Sept. 6, 2020, 9:40 p.m.

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ly01

4 months, 3 weeks ago

swapon sudo gdisk /dev/sdb -> ;n; +500M; 8200; w; y sudo partprobe lsblk sudo mkswap /dev/sdb2 lsblk -f sudo vim /etc/fstab -> /dev/sdb2 none swap defaults 0 0 sudo systemctl daemon-reload mount -a reboot swapon NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO /dev/dm-1 partition 3.8G 0B -2 /dev/sdb2 partition 500M 0B -3

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Testo321

1 year ago

sudo parted /dev/sdb print (partition table unknown) sudo parted /dev/sdb mklabel gpt sudo parted /dev/sdb mkpart swap1 linux-swap 2084s 501M sudo parted /dev/sdb print sudo udevadm settle sudo mkswap /dev/sdb sudo vim /etc/fstab UUID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX swap swap defaults 0 0 sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo swapon -a sudo swapon --show

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cloudyhr

2 years, 11 months ago

create a partition for given size(500M) #fdisk /dev/sdb #n #+500M #w #partprobe check the present free memory #free -h #mkswap /dev/sdb5 #swapon /dev/sdb5 check the swap space and compai with privious value #free -h exit /etc/fstab and add below line /dev/sdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 wright and exit /etc fstab # swapon -a

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