Hello , i wanted to put a little more swap space so i deleted the swap partition , before i had a mount of a windows partition , but now i delete it so swap will be hda1 instead of hda2 ...

i hacve created a new partition of 600 megs ( i have 512 mb ram but only need 600 of swap)
set type to linux swap ...

venus:/home/sam# mkswap /dev/hda1
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 600408 kB

and if i swapon:
swapon: /dev/hda1: Device or resource busy
venus:/home/sam#

venus:/home/sam# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hda1 partition 586332 0 -1
venus:/home/sam#

i can see system monitor that i have a partition , but 0 mb is used , i think it isnt good activated , in booting everything seem fine ..

any ideas ??

Did you change the /etc/fstab to point to the new location of the swap?

yes !

/dev/hda1 none swap sw 0 0 0

( have also tried other like /dev/hda1 swap swap sw 0 0 0 ) no results

dmesg | grep swap --- no output ,


but in startup it tells activating swap

With the amount of memory you have, the swap may never get used. Mine doesn't and no harm done.

If the system monitor says you have total swap space of 600mb then your swap space is working.

is it activated ? i i launch a big app ( like open office ) still 0 %

before it were used

What does the console command free indicate as your total swap memory size?

here it is :
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sam@venus:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 514860 228964 285896 0 5600 131396
-/+ buffers/cache: 91968 422892
Swap: 586332 0 586332
sam@venus:~$

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IMO your swap is activated.

before i change things , swap was always using 10 mb or 30 , but ok , no problem system runs fine

I think the fstab should look like this:
/dev/hda1 none swap defaults 0 0


and if i swapon:
swapon: /dev/hda1: Device or resource busy
venus:/home/sam#

Try this:
swapoff /dev/hda1
swapon /dev/hda1