Used swap 0MB of 0MB - why?
Duncan Lithgow
duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk
Wed Jan 19 13:25:02 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth wrote:
> Duncan Lithgow wrote:
>
>> 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!?
>
>
> You've probably got the wrong PATH setting, by using "su" to become
> root instead of "su -".
>
> Paul.
>
>
thanks, i've always used
>>su root
what is
>>su -
?
It didn't help though. I get
> [root at 3e6b347a dulithgow]# su -
> [root at 3e6b347a ~]# swapon -s
> [root at 3e6b347a ~]# mkswap /dev/hda6
> /dev/hda6: No such file or directory
> [root at 3e6b347a ~]#
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