On Tue, 19 May 1998, Piet Barber wrote:
>"Have I enough memory to partake in such technology?"
>"32 megs ought to be enough, right?" I scratch my head and go to a
>terminal and type "free"
Well, it's a lot more than 640K. :)
xv first needs to decompress the image to display it, hence it may need
gobs of VM.
>/dev/hdb7 327 327 514 1510078+ 83 Linux native
>/dev/hdb8 515 515 523 72261 82 Linux swap
Looks like you've got the partition set aside, but you forgot to tell
the system where the swap partition is.
First, use mkswap to ensure that it is formatted as swap:
# mkswap /dev/hdb8 72261
Then just swapon /dev/hdb8, and type 'free', and it should show the
additional swap space.
Also, if you want it to be permanently used, you need to insert an entry
into /etc/fstab, because Redhat includes a line 'swapon -a' in its
startup script which turns on all mentioned swap partitions in
/etc/fstab. Of course, if your's isn't listed --- well, you're out of
luck. :(
Something like:
/dev/hdb8 swap swap defaults
should work.
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