I need to see the info for my swap to make sure Slack is using the correct partition. In ksim, it shows my swap as 12mb, while I setup that partition as 512mb.

What command would provide the info I need?

Look your fstab file and see which line has /swap. Then compare that with the output of fdisk -l

fstab:

/dev/hda6 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda7 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda5 /mnt/fat vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

fdisk -l

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2328 18699628+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2329 4866 20386485 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2329 3093 6144831 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 3094 3519 3421813+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3520 4248 5855661 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 4802 4866 522081 82 Linux swap

Apparently, it's not set up to mnt the swap.
Would adding: /dev/hda8 ??? defaults 1 ? to fstab fix it? What belongs where the ? are.

Thanks!

Add to your fstab
/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0

Then just to be on the safe side
mkswap /dev/hda8 ( to format)
swapon /dev/hda8 ( to turn it on)

Next time you boot the swap partition will be enabled automatically

I'm not familar with Ksim. I wonder where its getting the info from?

What does the output of the console command free show for swap?

#free shows 0 (for swap). I guess on this install I set the swap partition up, but didn't tell Slack to use it during the install process. Oops

Thanks for the help.

Your welcome.

After you turn swap on look at the free command again and you should see something other than 0 for total swap. With 512mb of RAM you will probably not see much swap if any being used for normal desktop usage.