[Wolves] I'm back..trying again.

Adam Sweet drinky76 at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 3 11:17:29 BST 2005


--- Stuart Langridge <stuart.langridge at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > That means I don't have any swap space set up,
> doesn't it? That
> > strikes me as being bad. What should I do to fix
> it?
> 
> In further news, cfdisk says this:
> 
>     hda1        Boot        Primary   Linux ext3    
>   [/]             38346.26 
>     hda5                    Logical   Linux swap /
> Solaris              1447.65
>     hda2                    Primary   Linux
> plaintext                    213.86
> 
> meaning that I have a swap *partition*, afaics, and
> /etc/fstab says this:
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults    
>    0       0
> /dev/hda1       /               ext3   
> defaults,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0 
>       1
> /dev/hda5       none            swap    sw          
>    0       0
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660
> ro,user,noauto  0       0
> 
> so there should be swap, no? Am a bit confused now.

swapon /dev/hda5 should do the trick. This happened to
me recently, in my disk juggling my swap partition
lost it's way a bit.

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