As Netscape 4.04 crashed, and KDE was acting strangely, and xv crashed
when I tried to load in an image a couple of megs large, I started to
wonder...
"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"
Here's what I get:
[root@slacker /]# free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 30844 30492 352 26236 192
11032
-/+ buffers/cache: 19268 11576
Swap: 0 0 0
[root@slacker /]# exit
"Holey FreeHolies!" I scream to myself. "Zero swap space?!?" I could
have sworn that I formatted a swap partition when I installed this bad
boy.
This would also explain why my swap bar in xosview is *always* green,
showing 0% used. :)
Hmm... I coulda swore I partitioned a swap drive...
wonder if there really is a swap drive left on that disk...
[root@slacker /]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 523 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 1 127 1020096 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hdb2 128 128 523 3180870 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 128 128 134 56196 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb6 135 135 326 1542208+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hdb7 327 327 514 1510078+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb8 515 515 523 72261 82 Linux swap
Command (m for help): q
[root@slacker /]# exit
Okay, so I have this Linux swap partition that is just sitting there
unused, unloved, not swapping, idle!
A thorough read through the man pages (using apropros) I didn't find
anything relevant. Curse the program! It should have understood when I
wrote "apropos swap MIA"
the /usr/doc directory didn't contain anything about "missing swap
partitions" So I went to the RedHat site: In the little search area
box, I typed "swap partition".
Got all sorts of neat information on how to install the swap space
WHEN INSTALLING RH FOR THE FIRST TIME, but evidently they [Hart, et all]
didn't expect somebody to do something as boneheaded as I must have
done, (but haven't a clue what I did to do this)
I thoroughly read the man page for mount, but there appears to be no
procedure for mounting a swap drive (is this how you do it?)
Someone please 'splain to me what I need to do!
TIA.
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