On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:41:22PM -0400, Darren R. Weber wrote: > This may have been discussed before, if so sorry. I have two nearly > identical machines. Each have 512MB of ram. During the install I let > the installer do an automatic partition each time and then checked the > customize box and adjusted the layout to my liking. The installer > automatically chose to give me a 1GB swap file (double my ram) which is > what I would expect and wanted. Here is the problem: > After the install I go back and look and suddenly I only have a 256MB > swap file. This happened on both boxes. The first time I thought I > just goofed it but this one confirmed that it was not my mistake. > > Here is a quick look at my layout, see for yourself. > > [dweber@xxxxxx dweber]$ df -k df doesn't show swap partitions. > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda5 14405276 4962636 8710884 37% / > /dev/sda1 101089 15084 80786 16% /boot > none 256600 0 256600 0% /dev/shm Did you think this was it? It isn't - it's shared memory. > /dev/hda2 16121184 32828 15269444 1% /usr/local > /dev/sda2 2063536 161032 1797680 9% /var > /dev/hda1 3122956 164964 2799352 6% /var/www > > In the installer swap was set to 1GB. . .that doesn't look like 1GB to > me. Has anyone seen this before? Now that my system is built does > anyone know of a cheap trick to fix it? (Something like partition magic > only for linux?) /sbin/fdisk /dev/sda -l Substitue hdsa if you put your swap partition there. Check /etc/fstab for where it thinks it should be. Confirm with: # free and check the Swap: line. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
