Hi Again

Someday I may not be a newbie

Here is a question that may or may not be about nothing.

I installed slackware 10.2
80 gig hd
256 meg in (2) 128 meg chips


When installing I created partitions

Part. id system size
hda1 82 linux swap 518.68 M
hda2 83 linux 79504.59 M

when installing slackware / linux kernal 2.4.31
it found the swapspace and formatted it.
LILO is on the MBR.

When all was done and I took my old server off line I took out one of the 128 Meg chips and installed a 256 Meg chip. I now have 375 Meg reportable memory.
I did not run KDE Kinfo Center / memory before I change the chips.

here is the thing that I don't know about


I am in KDE and went to Kinfo Center / memory and it reports
Total memory 375.77 Meg
Swap space Not available

so I go into Kinfo Center / storage devices
and it sees several things but what I am interested in is hard dives and as far as those it sees only
/dev/hda2 71.7 gig

no where is /dev/hda1 listed.
I reran both fdisk and cfdisk and the /dev/hda1 is reported there.



Any ideas.

Thanks
Bob Oehler

Check /etc/fstab and look for /dev/hda1 as swap. But KInfoCenter under partitions should show it too.

I dont seem to have "Kinfo Center / storage devices", but you can check if your swap is working

dmesg | grep swap

you should see something like
Adding 401584k swap on /dev/hda1. Priority:-1 extents:1

if not you can try
swapon -v /dev/hda1

also check /etc/fstab - it should contain a line like

/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0

tobyl

On a Slack 10.2 install I did a couple of weeks ago on an aging Toshiba laptop, I too noticed that my swap partition wasn't bein mounted. During a reboot I noticed something to the effect of "Old style swap filesystem not supported, remake swap partition with mkswap -v1" (it went by pretty quick)

So, after logging in (and re-reading the message in dmesg) I ran

/dev/hda2 being my swap partition, and bingo.

Kde menu>System>KInfoCenter then partitions.

I have noticed this same behavior on a few of my recent installs. It doesn't do it every time for me though, and the solution is always the same.

I haven't tracked down what the problem is exactly, but it might be worth reporting to Pat if it hasn't been already.

I'm having the same problem. I checked dmesg but didn't find the message that odevans found, but I'm sure that doesn't mean anything. I'm running Slack 10.2 on a Tosh Portege 7140CT.

I do get a temporary fix with swapon /dev/hda1 (i.e., I have to do it every time I reboot), but how do I make this permanent?

/etc/fstab only shows:

/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda3 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Do I just add the /dev/hda1 line and save? What should be the other values? Thanks!

Read post #3.

for Bob Oehler
the output of "#fdisk -l " will b of some help.
identify the partition first.
post the output, since it is swap u can fix it by even creating a swap file if ur partion doesn't exists.
ss as in the 3rd post add the line

Hi All:

Well got it running and it is reporting in Kinfo center.

Here is what I did

Checked the /etc/fstab and the

/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0

was not there so I added them rebooted and still not swap drive
my machine loads fast and I did not see yea or neigh for /dev/hda1 reports. But is was not there

so follow more suggestions

Did the lines below and rebooted

root@box~# mkswap -v1 /dev/hda2
root@box~# mount /dev/hda2

now I have a swap drive and it survived another reboot.

Many thanks again this site is a life saver.

Some day I will be in total controll of linux

Bob Oehler

EXCELLENT!! You guys are kings!

BTW, if I ever have to re-load my OS (I'm considering putting in a WinBlows partition) how can I avoid this problem? Was it an issue with my installation? Something I forgot to do?

Thanks!

During slackware installation it asks you for swap partition location and adds it automatically. You don't need to edit fstab file.