No prob dude On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, NightStalker mewed: > Could someone post their mtab and fstab entries for their swap > partitions and/or any information that might help me get mine working in > 7.0? > > I've tried mounting that partition in a directory I created and got "fs > type swap not supported by kernal". Am I missing a kernal module? > > I tried to post a message here earlier but I don't think it posted, here > is the body again and excuse me if its a duplicate: > > ---------------------------------------- > > Hi, I just installed Mandrake 7.0 and am having trouble with my > swapfile. I know I specified it in the install, but now it's not set > up. > > If I try to manually mount /dev/hda7, mount returns "mount point swap > does not exist". Should I creat a directory /swap for this to mount > in? If not, where? Why wasn't this automatically done by the DrakX? > > Also, my hard drive performance has diminished since installing 7.0. > hdparm reports buffered disk reads <4 MB/s. In 6.0 I think it was ~19 > MB/s. I have an WD 1366AA which is Ultra66. I don't recall doing any > tweaking when I installed 6.0. > > > results from swapon -s: > > Filename Type Size Used Priority > /dev/hda7 partition 265032 0 -1 > > > my fstab: > > dev/hda7 swap swap 0 0 > > > ------------------------------------------- > > I'm sure this is something simple but I'm feeling stupid. All other > distros I've installed set up the swap correctly so I never had to do > anything until now. > > Thanks -- My new linux web server with Apache http://kittypuss.penguinpowered.com
/dev/hdc1 /data vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip250 auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 /dev/zip /mnt/zip auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev 0 0
