I stand corrected. Thanks for setting me straight. I was just looking at the wrong place. -Darren On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 14:38, Ed Wilts wrote: > 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 -- Darren R. Weber <weberdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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