Re: tlug: adding swap

[Viktor Pavlenko <pavlenko@example.com>]

Great, thanks, but: I hate seeing error messages at the boot time...

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Viktor Pavlenko \\\ IMRglobal Tokyo


>>>>> "DK" == Dmytro Koval'ov <kov@example.com> writes:

    >> 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:

    DK> Hi,


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

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

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

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

    DK> 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 ___________________________________
    >> Viktor Pavlenko \\\ IMRglobal Tokyo
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