Re: Swap not enabled?
On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 22:02 +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 15:46 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote:
> > # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> > #
> > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > UUID=63503a74-6e77-4623-bcea-9574740d3298 / ext3 defaults
> > ,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> > /dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
> > /dev/sda1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
> > /dev/sda5 /media/usb1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
> > UUID=a50446ca-dcb2-4988-a19f-3dc9967e1449 /disk2 ext3 defaults
> > ,errors=remount-ro 0 2
> >
> > I get nothing when i do a swapon -s
>
> Then you don't have swap!
>
> > I know why I belive. I have two disks attached to my NSLU2. The main
> > disk in port 1 usually gets /dev/sda so the root partion would be
> > /dev/sda5 When I boot with just 1 disk attached i get the swap
> > partion like I should. When the second disk is attached it seems like
> > I dont get the swap partion. I think the main disk gets mounted
> > sometimes as /dev/sdb. I have the two main disk partions being
> > mounted by UUID but I dont seem to have a UUID that I can find for the
> > swap.
>
> I think your right. So what's the UUID of a swap partition? Good
> question. However, I think there was another thread (something to do
> with RAID) which also had this kind of problem. You could search the
> list for something like 'UUID'.
Stupid me. It was your thread on 'fails to boot with second drive'.
However, I believe the web page that Stuart Read was trying to find is:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/MountDisksByLabel
Not quite UUIDs, but labels. Works just as well. There is an example for
swap partitions, so it shouldn't be a problem to figure it out.
David
>
> Maybe someone knows the correct solution by heart?
>
> David
>
>
> >
> > On 6/24/07, David Fokkema <dfokkema@ileos.nl> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 10:15 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote:
> > > > How can I tell if my system will use the swap space? Im running out
> > > > of ram and my system really starts to crawl and I never see anything
> > > > used as far as swap using the top command.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Just do `swapon -s`. That will tell you if you use a swap partition and
> > > how much of it is used.
> > >
> > > David
> > >
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