On Wed, 20 May 1998, Piet Barber wrote:
> As Netscape 4.04 crashed, and KDE was acting strangely, and xv crashed
> when I tried to load in an image a couple of megs large, I started to
> wonder...
>
> "Have I enough memory to partake in such technology?"
> "32 megs ought to be enough, right?" I scratch my head and go to a
> terminal and type "free"
>
> Here's what I get:
[snip]
> showing 0% used. :)
>
> Hmm... I coulda swore I partitioned a swap drive...
> wonder if there really is a swap drive left on that disk...
> [root@slacker /]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb
[snip]
> Okay, so I have this Linux swap partition that is just sitting there
> unused, unloved, not swapping, idle!
>
> A thorough read through the man pages (using apropros) I didn't find
> anything relevant. Curse the program! It should have understood when I
> wrote "apropos swap MIA"
>
> the /usr/doc directory didn't contain anything about "missing swap
> partitions" So I went to the RedHat site: In the little search area
> box, I typed "swap partition".
>
> Got all sorts of neat information on how to install the swap space
> WHEN INSTALLING RH FOR THE FIRST TIME, but evidently they [Hart, et all]
> didn't expect somebody to do something as boneheaded as I must have
> done, (but haven't a clue what I did to do this)
>
> I thoroughly read the man page for mount, but there appears to be no
> procedure for mounting a swap drive (is this how you do it?)
>
> Someone please 'splain to me what I need to do!
> TIA.
#man -k swap
mkswap (8) - set up a Linux swap area
swapon, swapoff (2) - start/stop swapping to file/device
swapon, swapoff (8) - enable/disable devices and files for paging and
swapping
#man swapon
...Calls to swapon normally occur in the system multi-user initialization
file /etc/rc...
This should give you a starting point. :)
HTH
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