Re: Getting Swap working

[Antony Stace <antony@example.com>]

thanks for all the suggestions about getting swap working:).  Now I have
about 180meg swap file :)

cheers

Antony


Darren Spiteri wrote:
> 
> Anthony's original line didn't have option sw, so swapon wouldn't have
> picked it up without an argument. You're quite right that he should
> actually prepare the partition for swap, didn't think of that.
> 
> Peter Barker wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Darren Spiteri wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Your swap line should be:
> >>
> >> /dev/hda6    none    swap    sw      0       0
> >
> >
> >
> > The line he supplied ought to work. It does here :-) (mount-2.10f)
> >
> > Could it be that the partition is not formatted for swap?
> >
> > Darren: What happens when you explicitly try to swap on that device?
> >
> > swapon /dev/hda6
> >
> > If it says "can't find signature" or similar, you'll need to mkswapfs(3)
> > it.
> >
> >
> > Yours,