On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, dan wrote: > > How do I activate that swap? > > You need to setup the swap space first. try 'mkswap /dev/hda5'. It's the > same as (only different) making a filesystem before mounting in. > > This will destroy all data on the drive.
No, it will destroy all data on the partition. This is quite an important distinction :) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
