On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:14 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > Steven Tully wrote: > > >Use "swapon -s" to determine if you have a swapfile or partition in use. > >If that isn't listed, try "swapon /dev/hda6" to turn it on and use the > >previous command to see if it is running. > >If not, recreate your swapfile with "mkswap /dev/hda6" and then use > >"swapon /dev/hda6" > > > >Hope that helps... > > > >Steven > > > > > >On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:44:53 +0100, Duncan Lithgow > ><duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >>I've recently had a few applications get killed off by full memory. So I > >>looked at System Monitor and it says: > >>Used Memory 218MB of 502MB > >>Used swap 0MB of 0MB > >> > >>Somethings wrong right? I've checked fstab and it looks normal ( > >>/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 ) but I've obviously done something > >>wrong if my system can't even see my swap partition. > >> > >>I can't find anything helpful for 'fedora configure swap' 'fedora test > >>swap' on google. > >> > >>ideas? > >> > >>Duncan > >> > >>-- > >>fedora-list mailing list > >>fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > Neither swapon nor mkswap are recognised by my bash terminal. I get a > lot of that trying to follow what people suggest - is something wrong > with that too!? > are you either logged in as root? or if logged in as a regular user did you do "su -" to get to root so these commands could be run?