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James Miller wrote:
>
> once you've created the swap partition and noted its location, 
> you can then format it.  Let's say your swap partition is an 
> easy one - /dev/hda2.  You issue the command
> -----------------
> mke2fs /dev/hda2
> ----------------

That line is unnecessary.  It formats the partition for an 
ext2 filesystem (which swap does not use).

> Then, you issue the command
> -------------------
> mkswap /dev/hda2
> ------------------

That's the one you need.  It formats the partition for swap.

> In order for the swap  partition to get recognized and used 
> each time you boot the system, you need to create an entry 
> for it in /etc/fstab.  So issue the command
> ----------------
> edit /etc/fstab
> ----------------
> If your swap partition is /dev/hda2, then you would add a 
> line that looks something like this to /etc/fstab:
> -------------------------------------
> /dev/hda2  swap  swap  defaults  0  0
> -------------------------------------

That is the usual way of doing it.  It would also be possible
to put a swapon line in a startup script.

Cheers,
Steven