Re: Mounting the Swap partition
In my /etc/rc.boot script, I find this line:
swapon -a 2>%1 | sed -e '/busy/d'
Is this the line that is mounting my swap partition? Do I need
this line in the /etc/fstab?
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
for the rc.boot script to work? Because if I don't have this line,
you say my swap partition won't be activated?
Dzuy Nguyen
----- Original Message -----
From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
To: Dzuy M. Nguyen <dzuy@pacificdentalcare.com>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: Mounting the Swap partition
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:46:41AM -0800, Dzuy M. Nguyen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> swap does not show up in df listings
>
> > I was wondering if I should ad this command in the '/etc/fstab':
> >
> > /dev/hda2 none swap sw
>
> that does need to be in fstab for swap to be activated, but swap
> partitions are not `mounted' you also need to add a 0 0 to the end of
> that line like this:
>
> /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
>
> > Do you need to mount the swap partition?
>
> not like a filesystem no, but at boot swapon -a is run, which looks in
> /etc/fstab to see what swap partitions you have that should be
> activated, if none are found then swap is not activated and your swap
> partition is unused.
>
> you will not see swap anywhere in the filesystem however, and it is
> not shown in mount or df listings. it is however shown in `free' and `top'
>
> > --
> > Dzuy M. Nguyen
> >
> >
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