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Re: [BL] BL3 Loop to hda2

From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
To: saay-4adx AT dea.spamcon.org
Cc: BasicLinux List <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 Loop to hda2
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:10:20 +1300

Alejandro Lieber wrote:
>
> Doing a fdisk I have:
> /dev/hda3 System 82 Linux swap
> But doing free I get:
> swap: total 0
>
> What do I add to use swap ?

Have you formatted the swap partition?
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mkswap /dev/hda3
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To turn swap on do the following:
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swapon /dev/hda3
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If you put that in /etc/rc, it will be done
automatically at system startup.

Cheers,
Steven

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[BL] BL3 Loop to hda2, Alejandro Lieber, 01/15/2005
- Re: [BL] BL3 Loop to hda2, 3aoo-cvfd, 01/15/2005
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- [BL] BL3 LOOP to hda2, Alejandro Lieber, 01/15/2005
  - Re: [BL] BL3 LOOP to hda2, sindi keesan, 01/16/2005
  - Re: [BL] BL3 LOOP to hda2, sindi keesan, 01/17/2005
    - Re: [BL] BL3 LOOP to hda2, 3aoo-cvfd, 01/17/2005
      - Re: [BL] BL3 LOOP to hda2, sindi keesan, 01/17/2005
- Re: [BL] BL3 LOOP to hda2, Alejandro Lieber, 01/17/2005
  - Re: [BL] BL3 LOOP to hda2, sindi keesan, 01/17/2005