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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

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