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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] swap partition
  • Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 07:01:49 +1300

cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:
>
> I installed phoenix on a Pentium 166 and got an idea of
> what a swap partition could be good for. I inserted a line
>
> /dev/hda2 none swap

Did you use fdisk to set /dev/hda2 as a swap partition?
Did you execute: mkswap /dev/hda2

> into /etc/fstab

/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0

> Then I ran swapon -av and got the message:

It may be simpler to remove swap from your fstab and just
do: swapon /dev/hda2

Cheers,
Steven




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