On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 18:13:35 +0200, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/29/05, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You should at least try using swapon in rc.local to see if it works for you. > > There might be something odd going on in my case. > > > > I added the swap file and acording to cat /proc/swaps it is working. I > know that this is obvious, but before I screw anything up, I just need > to add the line: > swapon /home/swapfile > to the end of /etc/rc.local so that it will (hopefully) be started at > boot? Also, should I bother adding the line: > /swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 > to the end of /etc/fstab? Thanks for all your help. I really do appreciate it. I think it is probably better to add the entry to /etc/fstab and use swapon -a so that you can just make changes to /etc/fstab and not have to muck with rc.local after every swapfile change.
