[bf1942] Swap Partition Problem

[Wolf]

try swapon -s to see if it's mounted, swapon -a mounts


----- Original Message -----
From: <bf at vandyke.sytes.net>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 11:52 PM
Subject: [bf1942] Swap Partition Problem


> This is probably very off-topic, but since this is a linux server issue
> and this is a linux server list, I figured I'd ask.
>
> On my brand new BF1942 server (it's also my CS, RTCW, Q3, MOHAA server) I
> am missing my swap partition.  This is a Dual-Processor AMD MP 2000+
> machine with 512MB RAM and an 80GB Western Digital HD.  I loaded RedHat
> 8.0 on it and put it in service.  I just noticed the other day that my
> swap partition isn't mounted.  I know that I created one during the
> install, but now it's not mounting and not even showing up when I go into
> fdisk (linux).  It's not listed in /etc/fstab either.  I'm wondering if I
> have a problem w/ the geometry on the HD or if there is another issue.
> I'm not that familiar with disks larger than 20GB or so as boot drives.  I
> partitioned it using disk druid and created a 10 GB /boot drive, a 1 GB
> swap partition and made the rest /.
>
> I'm thinking about wiping the whole thing and starting over.  Any
> suggestions.  I've been using linux for 6+ years in a network server
> environment and this is the first time I've seen this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>