On 8/1/05, Peter Teuben <teuben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had reported on a similar problem, and finally paid attention to the > output of "df" which showed 0 usage of swap. In fact, total was 0 too, > i.e. i had no swap despite that it was installed with swap. Turned > out the /etc/fstab file had a rather curious line in it: > > LABEL= swap swap defaults 0 0 > > where the = sign was followed by 15 0xAA characters (that dind't print > in the cut&paste above)!! So, no wonder. I suspect it is something in > the installed that is broken, since i install redhat systems fairly > regularly, or i overlooked a new(?) requirement that partitions be > labeled. > > Anyways, after hardcoding > /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > and running 'swapon' i'm back in business. e2label and making a nice label > of course also would do the job. > > I only have 640MB on this laptop, so i guess a swap is pretty important, > although you don't often run into this problem and it can take weeks before > you figured it out. > > peter > Thank you Peter. I will look into this as soon as I get home (at the university at the moment). 640MB on the laptop!?! My Desktop doesn't have that:) Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/105/cannibal_corpse.php Cannibal Corpse Song Lyrics
