Did you add the swap partition to a second hard drive that was not mounted? While writing this chapter, I remember being in runlevel 3 and trying to add swap to the /dev/hda that was mounted already because it contained / partition. The kernel did not recognize the partition. The kernel refuses to recognize a new partition table if the hard disk is currently in use.
You can add a swap partition in runlevel 3 or 5 if the hard drive is not in use -- i.e. a second hard drive. Tammy On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 04:33:10PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > official RHL customization guide, "adding swap space", reads > in part, to add a swap partition: > > "The hard drive can not be in use (partitions can not be > mounted, and swap space can not be enabled). The easiest > way to achieve this it [sic] to boot your system in [sic] > rescue mode." > > say what? i've numerous times added a swap partition to > a running system with a combination of fdisk/mkswap/swapon. > has this changed? > > rday >
