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Topic: Swap question, how do you know it is working?

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damnhappy

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Posted: Mar. 26 2005,05:24

I have dsl installed on my hard drive, and I just created a linux swap file partition with my partition program. My question is do I have to do anything special for dsl to use it? How do I know if it is being used?
Also what is the "Setup DOS Swapfile" under the System menu do?
Thanks for any help.

mikshaw

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Posted: Mar. 26 2005,06:17

if you have a linux swap partition, DSL should automatically detect it. You can do "cat /etc/fstab|grep swap" to see if dsl found it.

The DOS swapfile I think is for creating a swapfile on a fat partition.

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caulktel

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Posted: Mar. 26 2005,16:18

damnhappy,

What I do is drop to a console and type "free", if your swap is working you will see the numbers just to the right corresponding to your swap partition size. If all you see are 0's, then you need to format your swap partition with this command from the root console:
mkswap /dev/hda2. Change hda2 to what ever your swap partition number is.
Then just type: swapon /dev/hda2. Then type "free" again and you should see that your swap is working.

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damnhappy

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Posted: Mar. 27 2005,02:35

Thanks, I got it working! Now I am going to be a royal pain in the ass. I have the Linux swap file partition and the DOS file Partition working as Swap. I didn't mean to do this, but it's done. Can anyone kindly tell me how to turn off the DOS swap file? I don't think I need 2 gigs of swap, lol.
Thanks again.

cbagger01

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Posted: Mar. 27 2005,04:40

One way:

Delete the file.

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