Simple but no joy swap

[Karl Larsen]

Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>    I forgot swapon -a and when I did that there is a huge swap file 
>> in top. So that works now.
>
> Isn't there another thread discussing this? And before you start 
> another thread ranting about how you have to do a swapon everytime you 
> reboot, is the swap partition declared in /etc/fstab like below?
>
>    /dev/sda3         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>
>
    It is there EXACTLY as you have it. I will use a LABLE soon as it 
works good as it is.



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