[CentOS] What's going on with my Linux Swap?
Bryan J. Smith
b.j.smith at ieee.org
Thu Sep 8 14:10:00 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 22:59 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> Thank you for the advice. With a little tweaking, my partitions now look
> like this:
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 3644 29270398+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb2 3645 3737 747022+ 82 Linux swap
> Will Linux automatically start using that as a swap, or do I have to
> do something to mount it or in any way initiate it's use?
mkswap /dev/hdb2
swapon /dev/hdb2
And add this to your /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
-- Bryan
P.S. I hope /dev/hdb2 isn't a slave ATA device? Or is it an SATA
device?
--
Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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