Simple but no joy swap

[Vivek J. Patankar]

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


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Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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