Paul Howarth wrote:
The "-" parameter makes su run as a login shell, so it sets up the environment as if you had logged in as root, including adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to the PATH environment variable.
Thanks
It didn't help though. I get
[root@3e6b347a dulithgow]# su - [root@3e6b347a ~]# swapon -s [root@3e6b347a ~]# mkswap /dev/hda6 /dev/hda6: No such file or directory [root@3e6b347a ~]#
Your swap partition is probably somewhere else then. What's the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda"?
Paul.
and here goes: [root@3e6b347a ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1913 15366141 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1914 14593 101852100 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1920 12762 87096366 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 12763 12788 208813+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 12789 12853 522081 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda8 13653 14593 7558551 83 Linux
[root@3e6b347a ~]# mkswap /dev/hda7
/dev/hda7: No such file or directory
[root@3e6b347a ~]# swapon
usage: swapon [-hV]
swapon -a [-e] [-v]
swapon [-v] [-p priority] special|LABEL=volume_name ...
swapon [-s]
[root@3e6b347a ~]# swapon -a
swapon: cannot stat /dev/hda6: No such file or directory
[root@3e6b347a ~]#So somewhere the system has read fstab and been told that hda6 is swap - but it ain't!
I edit and save fstab but that doesn't help, I logout and in again - fstab still has my changes but still doesn't make any difference. Still says
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1913 15366141 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1914 14593 101852100 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1920 12762 87096366 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 12763 12788 208813+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 12789 12853 522081 82 Linux swap /dev/hda8 13653 14593 7558551 83 Linux [root@3e6b347a ~]# [root@3e6b347a ~]# swapon -a swapon: cannot stat /dev/hda7: No such file or directory
