Moving FC1 - how do I specify new swap partition ?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 03.08.2004 schrieb Thiers Botelho um 16:39:

> Questions:
> 
>         How do I inform FC1 about the currrent location of the swap 
> partition ? 

The /etc/fstab entry tells Linux about the swap partitions to use.

>         I recall having read (somewhere - ???, sometime ago . . .) that in 
> such cases the swap partition would be automatically detected and used. If 
> such is the case, a confirmation would be gladly welcome.

Don't know what you mean by auto-detection. The swap partition must have
the proper partition type (ID 82), be formatted as swap space and have
an entry in /etc/fstab. Then it is taken during boot-up.

> Thiers Botelho

Alexander


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