Used swap 0MB of 0MB - why?

[Duncan Lithgow]

Steven Tully wrote:

>Use "swapon -s" to determine if you have a swapfile or partition in use.
>If that isn't listed, try "swapon /dev/hda6" to turn it on and use the
>previous command to see if it is running.
>If not, recreate your swapfile with "mkswap /dev/hda6" and then use
>"swapon /dev/hda6"
>
>Hope that helps...
>
>Steven
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>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:44:53 +0100, Duncan Lithgow
><duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
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>>I've recently had a few applications get killed off by full memory. So I
>>looked at System Monitor and it says:
>>Used Memory      218MB of 502MB
>>Used swap            0MB of 0MB
>>
>>Somethings wrong right? I've checked fstab and it looks normal (
>>/dev/hda6   swap swap defaults 0 0 ) but I've obviously done something
>>wrong if my system can't even see my swap partition.
>>
>>I can't find anything helpful for 'fedora configure swap' 'fedora test
>>swap' on google.
>>
>>ideas?
>>
>>Duncan
>>
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Neither swapon nor mkswap are recognised by my bash terminal. I get a 
lot of that trying to follow what people suggest - is something wrong 
with that too!?