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"J. Neil Doane" wrote:
> Well, your "free" says you're using no swap right now. I'll assume from
> the email that you have an actual partition dedicated to swap. Here's
> what I'd do:
>
> 1. run 'fdisk' on the drive you have a swap partition on and get the size
> of that swap partition in blocks (while you're in there make sure that
> partition's type is "82" ("Linux swap")). Here's what my fdisk looks
> like for comparison:
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 1 192 1542208+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda2 193 193 460 2152710 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda3 461 461 1016 4466070 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda4 1017 1017 1024 64260 82 Linux swap
>
> So, here you can see my type is set to swap and size in blocks in 64260.
>
> 2. Run mkswap on your swap partition. The syntax is:
> mkswap [ -c ] device [size-in-blocks]
> So for me, I'd run:
> mkswap -c /dev/hda4 64260
> (The -c just checks for bad blocks, but it's a good idea.)
>
> 3. Now that the swap partition is created, just swapon it. The syntax is:
> swapon /dev/hda4
> At this point, you should see the swap appear in your "free" listing.
>
> 4. Now, if you want it to use this swap partition all the time without
> having to swapon it each time, you'll need to add a line in your
> /etc/fstab, here's what I use:
> /dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Neil Doane
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, sweeloong mok wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > Good day & thanks!
> > p/s: below listing may clearify my language description :p, pardon my
> > lang...
> >
> > [root@breezy /root]# free
> >
> > total used free shared
> > buffers cached
> > Mem: 63160 60300 2860 23212
> > 10144 27824
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 22332 40828
> > Swap: 0 0 0
> >
> > [root@breezy /root]# df
> > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> > /dev/hdb5 575634 475932 69968 87% /
> > /dev/hda1 2096160 1711552 384608 82% /mnt/dos
> > /dev/hda5 2088096 1716608 371488 82% /mnt/dos1
> > /dev/hdb1 1445216 1268160 177056 88% /mnt/dos2
> > /dev/hdc 653372 653372 0 100% /mnt/cdrom
