On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:50:01 -0800, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 11:34 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > > In FC5 I had problems with the swap file if it wasn't on the root file system > > at boot time. My theory is that swapon was running before the other file > > systems were mounted, but I never fully confirmed that that was the problem. > > Hmmm, on both FC5 and FC6, swap isn't turned on until the local > filesystems are mounted so that shouldn't have been an issue. The symptom was that on reboots the swap file wasn't used when it was on a file system other than the root file system. When the file was on the root file system it worked, and when I did swapon manually after the reboot it worked. I even tried putting the swapon command in rc.local and I couldn't get it to work there. I haven't tried it recently since I did a repartition since I need that and I have plenty of swap space in the swap partition.
