Harry,
Following the suggestion of Alexander Dalloz I went to the page:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159087#c17
and followed the instructions to create and activate a swap area.
(I used /sbin/fdisk to find out the device name for the swap partition)
Then I edited /etc/fstab. I changed the line for the swap device and changed `LABEL = xxxxx' to 'LABEL = swap'
With this change the swap area is properly initialized.
Hope this helps.
Gustavo
Harry Nicholls wrote:
This happen on one of our servers in a fresh install of FC4. The swap label
somehow got created with a "space" character inside the label. I worked
around the problem, by putting the swap enabling command followed by
surrounding the label with quotes. The command was put into the rc.local
file.
If you find a way to change the label of the swap slice, post back. I'd be
interested to fix it properly someday.
Harry Nicholls
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On Behalf Of matag@xxxxxx
Sent: September 29, 2005 1:28 PM
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Subject: Swap memory
Hi everybody,
I am running Fedora Core 4. When I use the 'free command' I get the
following
output:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 483196 350104 133092 0 29076 178420
-/+ buffers/cache: 142608 340588
Swap: 0 0 0
From which it appears that swap memory is not active.
In addition when the system is rebooted I get a warning that "line 10 of
/etc/fstab is bad", or something like this. Line 10 corresponds to swap
memory.
It reads as follows:
LABEL==i386 -mcpu=i68 swap swap defaults 0 0
Any hints on how to correct this?
Thanks in advance,
Gustavo J. Mata
