On Sunday 02 January 2005 13:39, Appeet wrote: >Thank you everyone. Now I see swap being available for use! > >Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:50, Appeet wrote: >>I originally installed my installation with swap on hdb4 (linux on >> hda2) >> >>However when I "physically" mounted my second harddrive I had to >> install it as a secondary slave. Because of this reason the >> definition for my swap is now hdd4. When I do a "top" I see that >> swap available is "0" (I originally had 1 gb on hdb4) so i guess >> my question now is how do I make linux use hdd4 as swap. >> >>Thanks in advance. > >Thats set in /etc/fstab, use your fav editor to fix the line >containing /dev/hdb4 by changing it to /dev/hdd4. Then rather that >rebooting, just do a "swapon -a" (without the dblquotes of course, >see the "man swapon" page) which should properly enable it. > Now, one more thing, please fix your quoting in your email agent, it is not prefixing each line with an additional > character to indicate the quoting levels, so it looks as if I sent your reply. That gets confuzing to the other readers of your messages. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.31% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
