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Posted: Jan. 04 2006,04:37 QUOTE
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
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Posted: Jan. 04 2006,04:43 QUOTE
try cfdisk

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Posted: Jan. 04 2006,04:44 QUOTE
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.
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Posted: Jan. 04 2006,06:13 QUOTE
yes thanks roberts it works ;)
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