Ian Masters wrote: > Hello, > > I'm in a slightly unusual situation and I'd really appreciate some advice. > > I installed CentOS 5.2 on a server about a month ago. > > Today I happened to check the 'free' command and noticed that the Swap > line reads as follows: > > Swap: 0 0 0 > > I'm pretty certain that when I installed the OS and created a custom > partition table, that I defined a swap partition, but there is no swap > line in > /etc/fstab either. > > However the output of 'lvm> lvdisplay' contains the following information > (amongst others): > > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/swap If that volume is not in use by anything else you should be perfectly able to do: mkswap /dev/VolGroup00/swap swapon /dev/VolGroup00/swap then add something like this to fstab: /dev/VolGroup00 swap swap defaults 0 0 nate