FC3 - Swap partition does not come up automatically on booting.
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Feb 8 13:06:13 UTC 2005
Kinjal Shah wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I am having a strange problem after installing FC3 on two machines. On
> both machines the swap partition did not come up automatically when i
> booted the machine.
>
> when i do "free" it gives me the following output.
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 2058472 329424 1729048 0 99224 108404
> -/+ buffers/cache: 121796 1936676
> Swap: 0 0 0
>
> my /etc/fstab shows the following
>
> LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2
> LABEL=SWAP-hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdd /media/cdrom auto
> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed
> 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto
> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed
> 0 0
>
> i even tried to change the label from SWAP-hda6 to /dev/hda6 but still
> the same result.
How did you create the swap partitions? Manually, or using the Fedora
installer?
Are they formatted?
Paul.
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