the swap

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: the swap
started by: bash88

Posted by bash88 on Jan. 04 2006,04:37

hi,

i created a swap partition (0x82) with fdisk, but DSL doesnt recognize it (total swap = 0kb in the system stats). can anybody help?

thanks

Posted by hs7sv on Jan. 04 2006,04:43

try cfdisk

Posted by roberts on Jan. 04 2006,04:44

You not only need to create the partition but also run the command:

mkswap /dev/xxx

Then DSL will automatically use it with each boot.

Posted by bash88 on Jan. 04 2006,06:13

yes thanks roberts it works ;)