Getting Swap working

[Antony Stace <antony@example.com>]

 Hi Folks

I noticed that I do not have any swap space being used by the kernal
when Linux is running.  When I list my partitions with fdisk there is a
swap area listed,  I added an entry to the /etc/fstab to try and make
the kernal recognise this but to no avail.  At the end of this email is
the output from fdisk, free and the contents of my /etc/fstab. Can
someone please tell me what I need to do so I can use this space as swap
memory.

Cheers

Antony

[root@example.com /root]# fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1222.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1222 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1        26    208813+  a0  IBM Thinkpad
hibernation
/dev/hda2            27       536   4096575    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda3   *       537       543     56227+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4           544      1222   5454067+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5           544      1200   5277321   83  Linux
/dev/hda6          1201      1222    176683+  82  Linux swap

Command (m for help): q

[root@example.com /root]# cat /etc/fstab 
/dev/hda5               /                       ext2    defaults       
1 1
/dev/hda3               /boot                   ext2    defaults       
1 1
/dev/hda2               /mnt/win                vfat    defaults       
1 1
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,ro
0 0
/dev/hda6               swap                    swap    defaults       
0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             ext2    noauto,owner   
0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults       
0 0
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620 
0 0
[root@example.com /root]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:        127976     120532       7444      84048       5192     
62044
-/+ buffers/cache:      53296      74680
Swap:            0          0          0
[root@example.com /root]#