Swap partition

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Topic: Swap partition
started by: Libby

Posted by Libby on Mar. 16 2004,21:03

I'm a complete newbie, just to warn ya'll.

I installed DSL a while ago on a really nasty old computer. I made a swap partition beforehand, but when I did the installation I didn't do whatever you're supposed to get the computer to use the partition. I guess I must've skipped something, but this was about a month ago, so I can't remember. Now, my sister (it's her computer) tells me programs are crashing all over the place. That would be because of the memory, right? So I need to get the swap partition to work. How do I do that? Do I have to reinstall? If so, how do I do this right next time?

Posted by Modrak on Mar. 16 2004,21:12

I hope you only made space(partion) for it in cfdisk and saved the partion table...so please do...

login as root an do "mkswap /dev/hdswap"
/dev/hdswap is the swapdrive...then reboot

Posted by Doriath on Mar. 17 2004,00:09

And sometimes to activate swap you have to type "swapon -a"

Posted by Lee on Mar. 17 2004,00:31

Erm, regarding this post, would I have to do this too?

I created a linux partition and linux swap on the one drive and just installed DSL using the guide and made lilo work.

I didn't get any errors and haven't done upto now (not used it much) but does it auto do this or will I need to do this too? (the above)

Posted by hasty on Mar. 17 2004,19:57

No.
If you made a swap partition at the install stage it will find it

Posted by nugget on May 11 2004,02:50

thats nice, I did all that made a couple of partitions made a 128 meg swap so it will see it so I dont have to do it manualy?!

Posted by PhrozenFear on May 13 2004,17:09

I made a swap partition myself, and then I had to manually mount it. But when I do so, my little control widgit thingy says that the swap is full. How is that ?

Posted by cbagger01 on May 13 2004,21:31

Are you sure that it is showing "full"? It may be showing "empty".

A quick check by typing in "free" on the command line should provide some additional information.

Posted by PhrozenFear on May 13 2004,23:27

Okay, that makes sense - I thought the 100% was how full it was, not how empty it was. Thanks, cbagger.

>>PhrozenFear