No swap space

Zerimas · 03-09-2005, 09:16 PM

When I installed DeLi linux I created a 50 meg swap partition, however upon running the du command it turns out that linux is not detecting my swap partition. How do I make linux utilise my swap partition???

Tinkster · 03-09-2005, 09:33 PM

swap wouldn't show in du ...

Try free

Cheers,
Tink

Zerimas · 03-09-2005, 09:57 PM

Woops! I actually did run the 'free' command but I posted the wrong command in my message. . .

But I still don't have any swap space.

Tinkster · 03-09-2005, 10:55 PM

post /etc/fstab please

youngtom · 03-10-2005, 01:00 AM

50mb is probably rediculously small. The conventional wisdom is that swap should be 2x the physical amount of memory in your machine.

chii-chan · 03-10-2005, 02:51 AM

You can have small swap space provided that you have lots of RAM. You can still run Linux even without swap space though...

Zerimas · 03-10-2005, 05:54 PM

Alright, I got linux recognize my swap partiton, I had to run mkswap on the partition and use the swapon command. However, when linux boots up it runs swapon on the wrong partition, how do I change this?

DeusExLinux · 03-10-2005, 06:08 PM

You can either run fdisk and change it to make one partition swap, and after that you have to edit your /etc/fstab (as root) and make sure it has the proper device labeled swap.