Hey cool, its working, and i can see it by "free" now.
*raise my right hand*
>From now on, I'll take my time to note down all details before I ask or
reporting a problem.
>From now on, I'll take my time to note down all details before I ask or
reporting a problem.
>From now on, I'll take my time to note down all details before I ask or
reporting a problem.
>From now on, I'll take my time to note down all details before I ask or
reporting a problem.
>From now on, I'll take my time to note down all details before I ask or
reporting a problem.......
Appreciated your help very much, thanks, Ray! :)
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> Your swap partition isn't part of the filesystem tree, so it won't show up
> in a df listing -- so you needn't worry about that part. As far as I know,
> there is no /proc/swap pseudo device (at least Slackware doesn't use one),
> so I'm guessing that part of your message is a misreading of something you
> saw. But the fact that "free" lists 0 swap means you don't have a swap
> partition running.
>
> What you need to do is:
>
> 1. Check /etc/fstab to see if it has any entries for swap. A valid one will
> look something like this:
>
> /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 1 1
>
> 2. Make sure that the swap partition is properly formatted to be swap. You
> do this with the command "mkswap /dev/hda3" (substituting the partition
> appropriate to your system, of course).
>
> 3. Run "swapon -a" as you did before.
>
> All that said, you may not need swap space, since you have 64 megs of real
> memory ... depends on what you use the system for.
>
> And BTW, it really is worth taking the time to note and report the exact
> error message. I wouldn't be surprised if seeing it let me (and others) know
> exactly what your problem is, letting me give you a more direct solution
> than what I provided here.
>
> At 01:11 AM 3/4/99 +0800, sweeloong mok wrote [abridged]:
> >hi all,
> >
> >I'm using redhat 5.0, I try to figure out whether my swap partition is
> >working fine...I try the swapon -s and swapon -a, it said /proc/swap is
> >not a valid directory or file or some sort, pardon me :p cant remember
> >the exact err msg, and during installation, I can remember I DID NOT
> >specified any mount point for the swap partition, is this correct? And
> >under my /etc/fstab there is nothing mounted for swap, how do I find out
> >my swap is ok?
> >what should i do to configure it properly?
> >how to check the swap patition status other then using free?
>
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