[nflug] ram swap fc4

[Robert Meyer]

add the line:
/dev/hdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0
To /etc/fstab.

Cheers!

Bob


--- jb <mesimpleton at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have 786.432 mb of ram and the system monitor indicates 757.6 mb. I 
> know some of the ram is reserved and I think in all probability the 
> 757.6 mb is a correct reading for usable ram but I'm not absolutely sure 
> so I'm wondering if I should manually add the actual amount of ram which 
> is 786.432 mb or if all is well and I should leave it alone?
> Also I have a slight swap problem. When I boot up, my swap isn't 
> automatically turned on. I found a solution by using these commands.
> su
> /sbin/mkswap -L swap /dev/hdb1
> /sbin/swapon /dev/hdb1
> Then the swap works fine until I reboot again which isn't very often so 
> if I forget to turn the swapon I am going to run into a problem because 
> I dip into the swap quite a bit, especially when I'm messing with big mb 
> pictures and gimp.
> I searched the web for info which led me to the commands but I'm unsure 
> how, what or where to add commands to get the swapon at boot up. Fedora 
> has a bugzilla report on this but I can't find the permanent fix, just 
> the temp fix using the commands. If someone could chime in with some 
> info or a solution I would appreciate it.
> Thanks in advance,
> jb
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