>I have a Linux 6.1 server running.  I setup 4 swap partitions, each just
>over 64MB.  But the system only recognizes the first swap partition.
>
>sda5 (recognized)
>sda6
>sda7
>sda8
>
>each partition is just over 64MB.  fdisk lists them all (ID: 82  Linux Swap)
>
>I have the following in /etc/fstab
>
>/dev/sda5        swap        swap    defaults    0 0
>/dev/sda6        swap        swap    defaults    0 0
>/dev/sda7        swap        swap    defaults    0 0
>/dev/sda8        swap        swap    defaults    0 0
>
>As I said, when running top, the system only show I have 64,220K of swap.
>When I should have 256,000K.
>
>Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance.
>James C. Montz

Run fdisk on sda6-8 and make sure that the partitions that you want as swap
are really marked as swap partitions.

Then, did you run mkswap on each of the ones that aren't working?  Do a
"man mkswap" for further details.

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