Re: Mounting the Swap partition
> I recently checked my '/etc/fstab' and found that my swap drive does not mount
> at boot. When I check with 'df' I do not see it on the printout.
>
you will not see any swap partitions in a df dump - they are no mountable
file systems.
> I was wondering if I should ad this command in the '/etc/fstab':
>
> /dev/hda2 none swap sw
>
you have to. i don't know, what the 'sw' at the end of the line is, but it
is basically right.
> Do you need to mount the swap partition?
it is auto-"mounted" by "swapon -a" in one of the boot-scripts.
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