Is it defined in your /etc/fstab file? Mine looks like this:


/dev/sda2      swap        swap    defaults        0 0


cheers



> 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!
> 

> 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!


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