On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 01:12:17AM +0900, Dave Gutteridge enlightened us:
> I realized what went wrong with the earlier commands.
> If I do fdisk, it looks like this:
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 3644 29270398+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb2 3645 3737 747022+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hdb5 3645 3737 746991 82 Linux swap
>
> I don't understand why it still says W95 Ext there, as I thought I
> deleted that.
> But anyway, it seems my swap is on hdb5, not hdb2. If I run the
> following commands:
>
> mkswap /dev/hdb5
> swapon /dev/hdb5
>
> And add this to your /etc/fstab:
> /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> then it works.
>
> I hope it's okay to run it this way.
>
Yeah, it doesn't make a big difference. I just noticed this morning another
Linux machine I have that is using a type f (W95 Ext) extended partition
instead of type 5. Since you only have 2 partitions, you don't need the
extended partition, but it also isn't hurting anything.
If you run the "free" command, you should see something after Swap: that is
greater than 0.
As I said before, it will probably help the lock-up situation if you didn't
actually have any swap before.
Matt
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Matt Hyclak
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