[bf1942] Swap Partition Problem

[Daniel Valois]

yeah. not-this-one at whocares.org
or linux-newbs at aol.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Ives" <jives2 at unl.edu>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Swap Partition Problem


> cat your fstab you show see swap as a /dev/****  or top and see if it
listed
> at the top, if not it's probity not active.
>
> now fdisk or cfdisk is there a partition you made for swap listed?
>
> if so then do
> mkswap /dev/****
> where **** is the partition you want as swap
>
> then swapon
>
> sorry if this has already been tried I just joined the list so I'm coming
in
> at the middle.
>
> Anyone just thought about a forum for some of this stuff?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Giggins" <seven at 1earth.net>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:34 AM
> Subject: RE: [bf1942] Swap Partition Problem
>
>
> > >From
> >
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-
> > sysinfo-filesystems.html
> >
> > /dev/shm. This entry represents the system's virtual memory file system.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bf at vandyke.sytes.net [mailto:bf at vandyke.sytes.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 11 March 2003 4:26 AM
> > To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> > Subject: RE: [bf1942] Swap Partition Problem
> >
> > Yes, I'm running 8.0 and when I do df I see the /dev/shm.  Here is the
> > output:
> >
> > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda2             76818080   8547000  64368892  12% /
> > /dev/hda1               101089     14726     81144  16% /boot
> > none                    256708         0    256708   0% /dev/shm
> >
> > The problem I'm thinking is that there is no filesystem associated with
> > /dev/shm.
> >
> >
> >
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