Simple but no joy swap

Martin Marques martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar
Mon Aug 27 20:25:52 UTC 2007


Karl Larsen escribió:
>    I have no swap listed when I run top. This is not true but the swap 
> file at /dev/sda3 was around 250 bytes. I had just goofed but I had a 
> much larger swap on the other hard drive and it worked great.
> 
>    Now just one hard drive and today I used fdisk and redid this hard 
> drive to have the same number of partitions but the /dev/sda3 is now 2 
> Gb. I used mkswap /dev/sda3 and it seemed to work but perhaps not 
> because top still says no swap... I will read man mkswap and see if 
> there is something else I need to do.

man swapon





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