On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:14:11 -0500, Brian Sutherland wrote: > Debian (Squeeze) runs with a blank fstab.
How is that?! Mine is full of useful things, like swap mount point, partitions and all that "useless" stuff ;-) > I am not sure exactly where the magic is on that but when I upgrade my > kernel and use make-kpkg --initrd to put it all together I lose my > swap. So I know could add it to the fstab to make it work but I am > wondering what is set different in my kernel that is not auto > activating it. Is it a config option? Something in the initrd? I > imagine there is a simple answer but my web searches turned up nil. I cannot reproduce that, at least within Wheezy. I had recently to compile my own kernel and /swap is still there :-? "/swap" can be added ondemand (by means of swapon) or by defining an entry at "/etc/fstab" but if yours was empty then "/swap" won't be automatically mounted at booting, regardless the kernel in use (Debian's stock or self-compiled). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
