On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:51 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > I have no swap listed when I run top. This is not true but the swap > file at /dev/sda3 was around 250 bytes. I had just goofed but I had a > much larger swap on the other hard drive and it worked great. > > Now just one hard drive and today I used fdisk and redid this hard > drive to have the same number of partitions but the /dev/sda3 is now 2 > Gb. I used mkswap /dev/sda3 and it seemed to work but perhaps not > because top still says no swap... I will read man mkswap and see if > there is something else I need to do. Did you mark that partition as swap in /etc/fstab, e.g.: /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 And did you run either "swapon /dev/sda3" or "swapon -a" (after editing /etc/fstab)? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
