On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 15:30 -0500, ron wrote: > Sorry here is the fstab: > > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > -ron- > Hi, ron, here is the pertinent portion of the rc.sysinit script: # Start up swapping. update_boot_stage RCswap action $"Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: " swapon -a -e if [ "$AUTOSWAP" = "yes" ]; then curswap=$(awk '/^\/dev/ { print $1 }' /proc/swaps | while read x; do get _numeric_dev dec $x ; echo -n " "; done) swappartitions=`blkid -t TYPE=swap -o device` if [ x"$swappartitions" != x ]; then for partition in $swappartitions ; do [ ! -e $partition ] && continue majmin=$(get_numeric_dev dec $partition) echo $curswap | grep -qw "$majmin" || action $"Enabling local swap partitions: " swapon $partition done fi fi But you also need the random seed setup first. Swap uses randomizing as form of gaussian optimization in most cases, and in others a psuedo rancom sequence establsihes the block offsets so they can be repeated. But it is sort of the drunkmans walk approach to optimization of access times and interpolation indices. In any event I think the initialization of the random seed occurs in the encryption initialization portion of the script. Be very careful of editing the sysinit script. This is one place where any unix or unix like system can really be messed up (but it can be corrected by simply finding an unedited version of the script in 99% of the cases.) Regards, Les H