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swap partition by /dev/hands :)

I set up my slack 10 without a swap prtition, now i wanna set it up, i used fdisk, created a swap patrition, then, mkswap... then i wrote this line in /etc/fstab:

Code:

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

fdisk:

Code:

Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/hda1  *          1      18000  144584968+  83  Linux

/dev/hda2          18001      19000    8032500  83  Linux

/dev/hda3          19001      19457    3670852+  5  Extended

/dev/hda5          19001      19457    3670821  82  Linux swap



Command (m for help):

But, #top:

Code:

Mem:    384768k total,  354984k used,    29784k free,  117260k buffers

Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,    79208k cached

I cant find my swap :(

Did you try with swapon -a ?

Thnx a lot =)

Code:

root@portal:/home/kan5300# mkswap /dev/hda5

Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 3758915 kB

root@portal:/home/kan5300# swapon -a

root@portal:/home/kan5300#

Code:

Mem:    384768k total,  285188k used,    99580k free,  101232k buffers

Swap:  3670812k total,        0k used,  3670812k free,    16420k cached