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Posted: April 19 2004,00:16 QUOTE

I created a swapfile partition but how do I get DSL 0.6.3 to use it?  Thanks.

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Posted: April 19 2004,13:47 QUOTE

Dallas, I got my swap going this way:
mkswap /dev/hda5
swapon /dev/hda5
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then to check it:
free

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Posted: April 27 2004,13:32 QUOTE

That's it!  I was leaving out the "/dev" or I was using "/mnt" or something, I forget. It's been over a week since I could sit down with this thing and play.  Even after several months with DSL (and Knoppix), I still find some of the command line syntax to be elusive; particularly frustrating is determining the correct file system path.  But it's fun learning.  I just recently mastered "find."

Thanks for your help and the tip about the free command.


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Posted: April 29 2004,15:37 QUOTE

find is nice

do "whereis" that is a good one too

There are many easy to use commands and such...for basic Linux verbage from a shell try GOOGLE = linux shell commands or GOOGLE - linux beginners guide...remember with linux GOOGLE is your friend

Hope this helps

Brian
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