Ok thanks to point me on the fstab file. Effectivelly for one raison I don't know yet the entry for the swap was strange and did not work. LABEL=SWAP-cciss/c0d0p swap swap defaults replaced by /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 swap swap defaults 0 0 and everything works with swapon cmd. Thanks again. Jean-Pierre -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Maciej Zenczykowski Sent: mardi 6 décembre 2005 13:51 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] RE: CENTOS4.2 swapon -s result ? what about /etc/fstab, any swaps listed there? maybe someone turned off swap? what about cat /proc/swap or /proc/swaps Cheers, MaZe. On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Castello, Jean-pierre (TS/Linux-HPC) wrote: > Thanks Alex White and Jay Leafey > I do /sbin/swap -s under root and nothing is return. > [root at node-36 ~]# /sbin/swapon -s > [root at node-36 ~]# > > I also notice that /dev/swaps is empty and here the partition table > reported by parted cmd > > Disk geometry for /dev/cciss/c0d0: 0.000-69459.609 megabytes > Disk label type: msdos > Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags > 1 0.016 103.593 primary ext3 boot > 2 103.594 55398.750 primary ext3 > 3 55398.750 63590.625 primary linux-swap > 4 63590.625 69459.609 extended lba > 5 63590.641 69459.609 logical ext3 > > I am also surprised ! > > Thanks > Jean-Pierre Castello > E-MAIL : Jean-Pierre.Castello at hp.com > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos