Re: tlug: adding swap

["Dmytro Koval'ov" <kov@example.com>]

> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to enable some additional swap at the boot time, so added the
> folloing line into /etc/fstab to mount my swap file:
> 
> /home/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0
> 
> Since swap -a is envoked before the file systems are mounted, I'm
> getting an error at startup:

Hi,


Here is what I have (Mandrake 6.0):
$ pwd   
/etc/rc.d
$ grep -n swap *
rc.sysinit:54:# Start up swapping.
rc.sysinit:55:action "Activating swap partitions" swapon -a
rc.sysinit:352:# Right, now turn on swap in case we swap to files.

rc.sysinit:353:swapon -a >/dev/null 2>&1
           ^^^^
rc.sysinit:354:action "Enabling swap space" /bin/true

$ grep -n mount *
[...]
rc.sysinit:276:# filesystems are NOT unmounted in single user mode.
rc.sysinit:277:action "Mounting local filesystems" mount -a -t 
[...]           ^^^^^

swap -a invoked twice once before mounting filesystems and 2nd time 
after. Just to ensure swaping to files. I think RedHat should be the 
same.

Regards
-- 
Dmytro

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> 
> swapon: cannot stat /home/swapfile: No such file or directory
> 
> And -- despite of that -- I have my swap file enabled (swapon -s)! (???)
> 
> Is it better to enable the additional swap in /etc/rc.d/rc.local?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> P.S. I'm running RH 6.0
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