Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
Mick wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: actually it can also free up some ram, and your image is compressed using lzf which can achieve a claimed 30 - 50% but generally you should have enough free swap to cover the size of used RAM. Is the compression a tuxonice only fea

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-04 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 November 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > actually it can also free up some ram, and your image is compressed > using lzf which can achieve a claimed 30 - 50% but generally you should > have enough free swap to cover the size of used RAM. Is the compression a tuxonice only feature, or h

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-02 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Murphy wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Iain Buchanan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: > >> I stand quite humbly corrected... this is what I get for leaving my >> old desktop running 24/7 unless kernel chang

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
Joshua Murphy wrote: On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Iain Buchanan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I stand quite humbly corrected... this is what I get for leaving my old desktop running 24/7 unless kernel changes or power outtages interrupted. Now with my playing Combat Arms... and being limited

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-02 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:51:58PM -0400, Joshua Murphy wrote > >> Umm... if you're hibernating to the same swap partition you're using >> when the system's live... I'm pretty sure you can't do that... even if >> everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-02 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Murphy wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into >>> my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did th

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
Joshua Murphy wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... [snip] What did I did? And how do I straighten it out?

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:51:58PM -0400, Joshua Murphy wrote > Umm... if you're hibernating to the same swap partition you're using > when the system's live... I'm pretty sure you can't do that... even if > everything does manage to fit, having sort out what belongs back in > ram and what doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
> mkswap /dev/sda6 > swapon /dev/sda6 Thanks, that worked. Having been bitten before by "doing the obvious", I was wondering if something else was required. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-31 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into > my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... > > hibernate: Running /usr/sbin/s2disk ... > s2disk: Could not use the resume de

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Walter Dnes wrote: I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... hibernate: Running /usr/sbin/s2disk ... s2disk: Could not use the resume device (try swapon -a). Reason: No such device ...and backs

[gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-30 Thread Walter Dnes
I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to... hibernate: Running /usr/sbin/s2disk ... s2disk: Could not use the resume device (try swapon -a). Reason: No such device ...and backs out gracefully. Accor