> PLEASE *SEPARATE* your replies from quoted messages. It's hard to read > when you run your reply into the middle of the quoted text. Leave a > blank line between them. Sorry, will try to be more attetive in the future. Tim: > >> That's your system trying to see if you'd hibernated your system > >> (which would dump RAM contents to the swap space, to be restored > >> when powering up again). If you hadn't hibernated your system > >> there wouldn't be any resuming information to find. > > George Hare: > > Sounds perfectly logical, where do you find out things like this ? > > Reading this list is one place. I don't recall where I found out about > how the hibernating did its trick, it was too long ago. Though > observing what my PC does while booting up, after using hibernation, and > not, you can work these things out for yourself. It might be worth > looking at the mkswap man file, but I'm not using FC6, at the moment, to > see if it's been updated with this information. > > > Everything is on hda1 and the swap is on hda2, if that matters. > > If that's a partition, then an entry like the following in your fstab > file should let you use it as your swap space: > > /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > >> If the problems down to it not finding your swap partition because it > >> can't read the label it's expecting, you can use the old-style > >> /dev/hda mount points > > > (How is this done?) > > As I've shown above, *instead* of something like: > > LABEL=SWAP-hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > "Comment out" any other swap lines, and just try one at a time. > > > There was a garphical tool like Parted, can't remember, but now it is > > gone. Should I put my disk in to get to the partitioning section > > again...I know nothing about fstab stuff. > > Here are the contents of my fstab: LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1 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 LABEL=SWAP-hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
Sorry for answering myself here, but things are a little hectic and I have MS which is eating my brain and I get overloaded with just waking up sometimes. I don't know why, but Linux motivates me. I got the GUI parted and checked out the swap info and it says active. Short time ago, I was playing with the swapiness (sp?) commands and currently run at 10; which was supposed to give a performance boost. No go. My box has been getting slower and slower and I even added 3Mbps from my ISP service and I think it is still getting slower. I am considering wiping the drive and trying Centos or something like it that sounds a little more stable...I'm getting a little tired. If I can keep 6 on here or put 7 on also, I'd do it, but I have a hard time dualbooting with Fedora (Remember Old Man :)). Who knows tomorrow is another day. A big thanks for the suggestions and manners corrections...I hate it when others do it and I want to be corrected when I do it. Thanks and make some OS suggestions please. George Hare
