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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Swapon
  • Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 12:39:29 -0500 (CDT)

On Sat, 24 May 2003, russ loroville wrote:

> I have obtained a formula for an alias swap turn on. It makes a swap but
> it is not used:
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> alias xtra='dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=8 of=/swap; mkswap /swap 8192;
> sync;swapon /swap'
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Any suggestions?
>
Did you add your swap partition to /etc/fstab? I'm not sure what your
forumla is supposed to do (my ignorance about many Linux details), but
if you make and format a swap partition, then add it to /etc/fstab, it
will be automatically mounted and used on bootup. Hope this helps.

James




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