Steve, My entry in /etc/fstab (SuSE 7.0) looks like: /swapfile swap swap 0 0
and it works. Maybe the "defaults" part is causing problems? Denis On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 19:16, Steve Bui wrote: > We're on Suse Linux 7.0 and we just created a swapfile on a separate disk as > '/mnt/dasdb1/swap/swapfile' and activate it ok with 'swapon > /mnt/dasdb1/swap/swapfile'. 'swapoff -s' shows that the swap file is active > so we add an entry to '/etc/fstab' as '/mnt/dasdb1/swap/swapfile swap swap > defaults 0 2' to make it permanent. After the ipl, we checked but the swap > file did not come active so we issued the swapon command manually, and it > came active. The procedure to add swap files is documented in the 'SuSE > Linux 7.0 installation, Networking, Know how' manual (page 38-39). Does > anyone know why the swap file doesn't come active after ipl? Thanks. > > ____________ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > Steve Bui , IRIS - IBM Systems Support Mgr. > Phone(480) 965-3070 / fax(480) 965-6317 -- Denis Beauchemin, analyste Universit� de Sherbrooke, S.T.I. T: 819.821.8000x2252 F: 819.821.8045
