Re: Auto enabling swap at boot up

2010-08-16 Thread Bob Proulx
T o n g wrote: > I remember a distro can automatically pick up the swap partition without > me specifying it in fstab file. So it is not Debain that do it > automatically, right? Are you thinking of dphys-swapfile? apt-cache show dphys-swapfile Description: Autogenerate and use a swap file

Re: Auto enabling swap at boot up

2010-08-15 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:13:23 -0400, Celejar wrote: >> I am not sure, but is Debain able to pick the swap partition(s) and use >> it on boot up without using specifying it in fstab file? > > You can always have a script call swapon (see 'man swapon'), but what, > exactly, are you trying to accompl

Re: Auto enabling swap at boot up

2010-08-15 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:05:07 + (UTC) T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure, but is Debain able to pick the swap partition(s) and use > it on boot up without using specifying it in fstab file? You can always have a script call swapon (see 'man swapon'), but what, exactly, are you trying to