Used swap 0MB of 0MB - why?

[Paul Howarth]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> 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 -".
>>
> thanks, i've always used
>  >>su root
> what is
>  >>su -

The "-" parameter makes su run as a login shell, so it sets up the 
environment as if you had logged in as root, including adding /sbin and 
/usr/sbin to the PATH environment variable.

> 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 ~]#

Your swap partition is probably somewhere else then. What's the output 
of "fdisk -l /dev/hda"?

Paul.