Fat slug available? WAS: Re: Swap not enabled?
On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 21:07 +0100, Steve Gane wrote:
> I've just decommissioned my fatslug in favour of an N2100.
You might want to sell it to John Fieldsend, ;-)
John, still there?
>
> But what I did on my slug was this:
> Use the "-L" option of mkswap, like:
> mkswap -L Swap /dev/whatever
> Then mount it by label. My fstab had this:
> LABEL=Swap none swap sw 0 0
Yes, that's what the wiki says!
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> 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'.
> >
> > 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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