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#1 2004-12-12 12:16:59

Taz76
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[checkup needed?] swap-partition

I've had Arch 0.7 for some time now.. some months or something. Installed it from ftp, booted up with floppys. Yesterday I found out when looking into a problem with Maya that I had no swap!? Still I made a partition and selected that when Arch was installed.. When my comp starts it says activating swap -> done. So I thought everything was ok.. but it wasn't I have recently learned.. the free-command printed out swap total: 0.. Perhaps there is some bug in the installation?

Just thought I should let you know if it need's to be checked..  wink

/ Taz

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#2 2004-12-12 15:10:21

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Re: [checkup needed?] swap-partition

If you cfdisk your harddisks, is there a swap partition? Maybe the installer did create a partition and formatted it as swap, but the line in your /etc/fstab is wrong.


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#3 2004-12-12 15:19:20

Taz76
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Re: [checkup needed?] swap-partition

yes, I did make a swap-partition.. at boot it says "activating swap".. but "free" said swap total: 0.. so I found out that you have to write in fstab.. /dev/<part> swap swap defaults 0 0... or atleast that's what I did.. and afterwards free said that I had 1gb total swap.. but I just think that I selected which part to use as swap - arch should configure this completely and not just half-ways.. at first I did not have any line in fstab for swap..

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#4 2004-12-12 16:27:46

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Re: [checkup needed?] swap-partition

I don't know if that's a bug in the installer: I installed Arch using the l33t install script. wink


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#5 2004-12-12 16:41:00

Taz76
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Re: [checkup needed?] swap-partition

That was why I wrote this post.. perhaps someone of the big guys would notice.. wink

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#6 2004-12-14 03:09:51

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Re: [checkup needed?] swap-partition

Hi Taz76.

Check that your /etc/fstab specification for swap is correct (no typos, proper partition).

Regards,

Win

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#7 2004-12-14 14:19:12

Taz76
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Re: [checkup needed?] swap-partition

Win -> thanks, but it's already sorted it (when I wrote the post)..  big_smile  the swap is now functional and running - but not after I had installed arch.

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