swap not turned on at boot

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 15:30 -0500, ron wrote:
> Sorry here is the fstab:
> 
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot              /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> devpts                   /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> tmpfs                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                     /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> sysfs                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01  swap                   swap    defaults        0 0

It should definitely turn on swap if that's the case.  Try

	/sbin/swapon -s

as root to see if it's really on but not being logged, e.g.:

    [root at golem2 ~]# /sbin/swapon -s
    Filename                       Type        Size    Used    Priority
    /dev/mapper/sys_vg-swap_lv     partition   4194296 112     -1

and the log entry in /var/log/dmesg should look something like:

    Adding 4194296k swap on /dev/sys_vg/swap_lv.  Priority:-1 extents:1
    across:4194296k

(all on one line).
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