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.
> 
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