type - "free". you would see there if you have a swap file + it's
size. if it is not formatted you wouldn't see it.
or "top". same info.
btw, i know that once you start from scratch, swap is automatically
formatted.
noelt.
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Marvin T. Pascual wrote:
> If it's just slow then more RAM would help. If it is really really slow
> then it could be that you have'nt formatted or made your swap partition
> active. A symtom for this case would be if you try to open a big app like
> netscape, it opens for a long time that you would think that it already
> hanged. This happened to me because I manually partitioned my drive and I
> forgot to format and make the swap partition active.
>
> Holden
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>
> How can I make my swap file active? You mean to say that after I manually
>partitioned my hard drive and allocate one for swap file, i still have to format it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Marvin
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