Simple but no joy swap

[Karl Larsen]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:51 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     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.
>>     
>
> Did you mark that partition as swap in /etc/fstab, e.g.:
>
> 	/dev/sda3      swap            swap    defaults        0 0
>
> And did you run either "swapon /dev/sda3" or "swapon -a" (after editing
> /etc/fstab)?
>
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>   
    It was the swapon -a which I saw in man mkswap that remined me as it 
was supposed to ;-)



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