Creating a awap partition and telling Linux to use it are not the same thing.
You create it with fdisk or an equivalent.
To use it, you run (in the example, I assume it is hda2)
mkswap /dev/hda2
swapon
To use it every time you boot up, add it to your /etc/fstab file. The entry
is about like this:
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
And yes, Linux *will* run without a swap partition, as long as you have
enough real RAM. There are reports that newer kernels run less efficiantly
without swap than with it -- I can't confirm or dispute these -- but they
will run.
At 06:01 AM 1/31/00 -0600, Dan wrote:
>Hi,
>Before I installed linux I was running NT and used Partition Magic to
>partition my hard drive so that I could dual boot. I made two partition,
>one being Linux ext2 1 gig and the other Linux swap 50 megs. I was able
>to installed Caldera 2.3 a couple of days ago and it seems to be working
>fine so far. Yesterday I was looking around in the KDE control center
>and noticed it said that my swap files size was equal to zero. I did not
>think linux would run without a swap file. According to partition magic
>on the windows side, it is set to 50megs. How can I check to see how
>large my swap file is using linux? If it is set to zero how can I make
>it larger?
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