On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:17:02AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 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. > > This is not true. Partitions may be, but do not have to 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ======================================================================= If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly. -- G.K. Chesterton ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
