Hi everybody.

My red hat Linux 9 currently does not have the swap partition since when I installed the red hat. it kept prompting me that it was unable to create the swap partition.

My red hat now is now very unstable. After running several programs that consume quite a lot of memory, the system is automatically logout. And sometimes, the x server ( xfs ) is switch off and must manually restart.

I am running my Final Year Project on Linux platform. So those problems are really big obstacles for me.

Very appreciate if anyone could help.

Regards,

Andy

you need to create a swap partition... it should be easiest to shrink your last partition by say, 250mb using resize2fs or resize_reiser depending on your choice of fs, then partition the newly freed space as linux swap in cfdisk or fdisk. then use mkswap /dev/hda9 (for example) to create the swap. you should then be able to test it using "swapon /dev/hda9" and if that works and "free" reports that right amount of swap, add an /etc/fstab entry: