"df" doesn't show swap space. It only shows mounted filesystems, and swap
isn't a filesystem.
To check whether swap is present and active, use "free" to see what swap is
available and how much of it is used. If no swap is shown as available, run
the command "swapon" to activate existing swap partitions. If for some
reason your swap partition isn't formatted for swap, the command "mkswap
/dev/whatever", replacing "whatever" with the right partition designator,
will format the partition as swap space.
Since "df" would NEVER have shown your swap partition, I suspect you've
mixed up using it with looking at the contents of /etc/fstab, a file that
lists ALL the partitions that your system actually uses, including swap.
The appearance of hdb2 has nothing to do with any of this. In disk device
names, the letter designates a physical device, the number a partition. So ...
hda2 is the second partition on drive hda (IDE primary master)
hdb2 is the second partition on drive hdb (IDE secondary master)
As you suspected, your T1 line has nothing to do with this problem.
At 09:28 PM 2/27/00 -0500, Liz Dunbar wrote:
>Bizarre things started happening while I was demonstrating shell scripts
>that I know work, including "out of virtual memory" and not consistently
>accepting logins so I went exploring and noticed that df now turns up
>hda3 /
>hda1 /dos
>hdb2 /mnt [this is the recently added 20GB disk holding the website]
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