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Re: Apt-get behaving badly



On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 02:45:46PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote:

> Yup, this is what mine looked like so I changed fstab and rebooted.
> However, upon reboot, my swap file still showed 0, 0, 0.  I also tried
> starting GNOME, another resource hungry program, and it crashed, too.  So I
> think the swap partition is still not working.  What else an I do to kick
> the thing on?

Your fstab does look right. Does 'swapon -a' complain about anything?
(That should be done by default though ...)

>          ---Starting---      ----Ending----    Start Number of
>  # Flags Head Sect Cyl   ID  Head Sect Cyl    Sector  Sectors
> -- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- ---------
>  1  0x80    1    1    0 0x83  239   63 1023       63  19867617
>  2  0x00  239   63 1023 0x82  239   63 1023 19867680    136080

The system id is right, too, which was something I was going to ask
about.

Also make sure you've run mkswap on the device you're trying to use as a
swap device.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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