Re: Mounting the Swap partition
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:08:01PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> yes, yes, yes, exactly :-)
>
> btw: i don't know, how it is on debian, but suse works fine, if your
> swap-line is just
> /dev/hda2 none swap
i don't know about the sw part but i think its a bad idea to leave out
the 0 0 which tells fsck and dump to ignore this partition.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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