Re: Knoppix & Swap
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 11:58:36 +0000, Jean-Michel Hiver
<hiver.j@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I have installed knoppix with knx2hd but it doesn't seem to be using
> swap. I was wondering:
Have you verified via `free -m` if the swap partition wasn't even mounted?
> - What tool can I use to make sure the swap partition exists?
An fdisk utility would see if the swap partition exists.
> - What do I need to do to "mount" the swap, or rather let linux know
> that it should use the swap partition?
>
man 8 swapon.
Add an fstab entry to automatically mount it everytime your machine
boots up, e.g.:
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
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Paolo Alexis Falcone
pfalcone@gmail.com
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