Re: Fat slug available? WAS: Re: Swap not enabled?

2007-06-24 Thread Steve Gane
Yeah, I had considered that. I owe Marc Singer a few bootloader experiments (I haven't forgotten, just been a bit busy and not wanting to take it off line) When that's complete I'll decide it's fate, i.e. do I want to sell it or have I a role for another little server! Steve David Fokkema wrote:

Fat slug available? WAS: Re: Swap not enabled?

2007-06-24 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 21:07 +0100, Steve Gane wrote: > I've just decommissioned my fatslug in favour of an N2100. You might want to sell it to John Fieldsend, ;-) John, still there? > > But what I did on my slug was this: > Use the "-L" option of mkswap, like: > mkswap -L Swap /dev/whatever > T

Re: Swap not enabled?

2007-06-24 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 22:02 +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 15:46 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > > # > > # > > proc/proc procdefaults0 0 > > UUID=63503a74-6e77-4623-bcea-957474

Re: Swap not enabled?

2007-06-24 Thread Aaron Klein
I played with it some more and I cant seem to locate the UUID of the swap. Even with tree /dev/disk I did play around with some things and since I know the main disk that should be /dev/sda had the swap on /dev/sda5 when I put the second disk on the unit gets addressed as /dev/sdb I tried to moun

Re: Swap not enabled?

2007-06-24 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 15:46 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote: > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > proc/proc procdefaults0 0 > UUID=63503a74-6e77-4623-bcea-9574740d3298 / ext3 > defaults > ,errors=remount-r

Re: Swap not enabled?

2007-06-24 Thread Aaron Klein
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 UUID=63503a74-6e77-4623-bcea-9574740d3298 / ext3defaults ,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda5 noneswapsw

Re: Swap not enabled?

2007-06-24 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 10:15 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote: > How can I tell if my system will use the swap space? Im running out > of ram and my system really starts to crawl and I never see anything > used as far as swap using the top command. > Just do `swapon -s`. That will tell you if you use a s

Re: Swap not enabled?

2007-06-24 Thread Luis Matos
cat /etc/fstab and check if there is a swap to mount. create some disk formatted as swap ... swapon /dev/sda1 for example. Dom, 2007-06-24 às 10:15 -0400, Aaron Klein escreveu: > How can I tell if my system will use the swap space? Im running out > of ram and my system really starts to crawl an

Swap not enabled?

2007-06-24 Thread Aaron Klein
How can I tell if my system will use the swap space? Im running out of ram and my system really starts to crawl and I never see anything used as far as swap using the top command. -- Have pets? Get the help you need from the Pet Advice Network. We have 6 websites ready to help you. http://www.