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How do I re-enable swap partition?

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wowzer198   11-24-2002 at 02:51:12 AM

I initially had the hd on ide1, but switched it to one of the onboard raid channels. In the boot sequence, when it tried to enable swap file it failed. So I switched it back to ide1, but now it fails every time. It's important that I get it to work, since i only have 128mb of ram. Haven't found a solution in any linux "Bibles" that I've read. Please help! I'm running Redhat 8.0

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silverpig   11-24-2002 at 04:25:06 AM
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I'd just pop in the install disk and reformat the swap partition. Should work.

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ejsmith2   11-24-2002 at 05:06:55 PM
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Yeah, format it.

And make sure it's mounted in your fstab.

If it ain't workin' then, then there is another problem altogether.

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poorboy   11-27-2002 at 02:30:39 PM
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The command to format it is mkswap, and swapon to enable it. It should be auto enabled at boto time through the entry in /etc/fstab.


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