Red hat not finding swap space

jza · 07-28-2003, 04:13 PM

I installed a swap partition as a logical partition way down in my partition table, but my root directory is all the way at the top (i have a bunch of ntfs dirs in between.) anyway, i don't think its finding it because when i go to the task mannager it says 0 available for swap space. My question is, is there a way for me to specify the location of the swap space ?

thx

trickykid · 07-28-2003, 04:18 PM

mkswap /dev/hdXX

swapon /dev/hdXX

Where XX is the location of the partition. When creating the partition to be used, did you specify the type as Linux Swap?

michaelk · 07-28-2003, 07:57 PM

And is there an entry in your /etc/fstab file for the swap partition?

/dev/hdxx swap swap defaults 0 0

This will enble swap at boot time.