Quote:
Originally Posted by b0uncer
Code:
grep swap < /etc/fstab
in the above, < is useless (unless of course you love typing):
Code:
grep swap /etc/fstab
Sorry, that was misleading. Actually what I meant was why swapon is not effective, i.e. if it's run, why it doesn't work. Of course fstab needs to be in order, but I understood it that you didn't change your partition configuration - or did you?
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No. Everything is where it is suppose to be. I am just lost why this is happening.
Its always been like this for hda, hdb1, hdb2 and sda1. hdb3, sda2 and sda3 are the ones I use to play around with other os's. Sda2 will always be for DesktopBSD.
/dev/hda1 swap
/dev/hda2 boot
/dev/hda3 /
dev/hda4 var
/dev/hdb1 home
/dev/hdb2 xp
/dev/hdb3 (Empty partition currently, may just expand xp and get rid of hdb3)
/dev/sda1 disk (storage)
/dev/sda2 (Empty partition currently. Going to reinstall DesktopBSD with the latest version.)
/dev/sda3 (Empty for now, will have some Linux os there soon..)
Edit:
here is fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda3
UUID=3d9d448d-e454-4fa6-90b3-da717e691648 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hda2
UUID=dab28c96-19d1-4112-a55d-fd7d4209f236 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/hdb1
UUID=5e530f29-bff3-496e-997b-836d8490f4ed /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/hda4
UUID=8783fe31-bfc9-437e-a66a-64fbf23ce849 /var ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/hda1
UUID=f2ec5e35-9837-4677-8a77-5c3546f7c6d4 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/disk ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
# /dev/sda3 /media/DesktopBSD ufs auto,ro,ufstype=ufs2,nodev,nosuid 0 0
# /dev/sda2 /media/Knoppix ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 2
/dev/hdb2 /media/WinXP ntfs-3g default 0 0
# /dev/hdb3 /media/DSL ext3 defaults 0 2
# Generated by Automatix
## End of Automatix mounted partitions
Here is mtab,
/dev/hda3 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0
procbususb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
lrm /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda2 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /home ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda4 /var ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/disk ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /media/WinXP fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0