Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ4] Swap File

["William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:43 PM 31/03/03 -0500, you wrote:
> On Monday 31 March 2003 18:46, William J.A. Brillinger wrote:
> > Is it possible to delete old swap and recreate it from the command 
> line, the disk space is there waiting. Perhaps I only need to turn it on??
>
> What does /etc/fstab say?
> try swapon -a if fstab has a swap entry.

ok I did this:

[root /root]# mkswap /dev/hda5
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 41119744 bytes

[root /root]# swapon -a

[root /root]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1             /         ext2    defaults                          1 1
/dev/hda5             swap      swap    defaults                          0 0
/dev/hda3             /var      ext2    defaults,nosuid                   2 2
/dev/hda4             /home     ext2    defaults,usrquota,grpquota,grpid  3 3
none                  /proc     proc    defaults                          0 0
none                  /dev/pts  devpts  gid=5,mode=0620                   0 0

[root /root]# cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  529514496 325353472 204161024 230739968 62603264 140709888
Swap: 41115648        0 41115648
MemTotal:    517104 kB
MemFree:     199376 kB
MemShared:   225332 kB
Buffers:      61136 kB
Cached:      137412 kB
SwapTotal:    40152 kB
SwapFree:     40152 kB


Now I have swap space, but not quite as much as I expected :(
- Bill





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