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[russ loroville <bontemps AT m-net.arbornet.org>]

James,
  You are probably right. You may need it in the bootup format for it to
work, so an alias may not work.

On Sat, 24 May 2003, James Miller wrote:

> 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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