I just put a new harddisk into one of the workstations here, remade
partitions, rsync'd the system over, then created the swap space, then
booted, and it all worked - except for swap.
here's what i did:
mother:~# grep swap /etc/fstab
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
mother:~# mkswap /dev/hda2
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1019928576 bytes
mother:~# swapon /dev/hda2
mother:~# cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hda2 partition 996020 0 -1
mother:~> free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 516580 475844 40736 0 170540 224736
-/+ buffers/cache: 80568 436012
Swap: 996020 0 996020
now say i'll start openoffice and mozilla and a couple of others, just to
consume RAM. the system will not use the swap space. any idea why not?
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