fstab and swap question

radiodee1 · 10-17-2006, 01:43 PM

I'm trying to install swap space, and am editing fstab. I've got everything right (I think) but those last two numbers. My entry for my swap space looks like this:

/dev/hdb2 none swap swap 0 0

Is this right? If I type 'swapon - s' as root I get a table that says:

Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hdb2 partition 522104 0 -1

I look at the 'used' and 'priority' columns and I wonder if I'm doing the right thing. Any help in this matter would be apreciated.

crashsystems · 10-17-2006, 02:36 PM

try the following:

Code:

/dev/hdb2 none swap defaults 0 0

and see if that works. With this, you'll be selecting the default options for this fs. Tell me how it goes.

crashsystems

syg00 · 10-17-2006, 04:25 PM

Everything is fine.
People complain when they find swap being used, others worry when it's not.

The priority is merely used to determine the order of selection for swapout - where multiple swap extents exist. Not relevant here.
Can be specified in fstab if you really want to.

radiodee1 · 10-18-2006, 06:35 AM

crashsystems, syg00,

Thanks. I'll try the change in fstab. Thanks again.