RE: Swap memory

From: Harry Nicholls (hnicholls_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 09/29/05

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:58:55 -0400

    This happen on one of our servers in a fresh install of FC4. The swap label
    somehow got created with a "space" character inside the label. I worked
    around the problem, by putting the swap enabling command followed by
    surrounding the label with quotes. The command was put into the rc.local
    file.

    If you find a way to change the label of the swap slice, post back. I'd be
    interested to fix it properly someday.

    Harry Nicholls

    -----Original Message-----
    From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]
    On Behalf Of matag@usb.ve
    Sent: September 29, 2005 1:28 PM
    To: fedora-list@redhat.com
    Subject: Swap memory

    Hi everybody,

    I am running Fedora Core 4. When I use the 'free command' I get the
    following
    output:

                 total used free shared buffers cached
    Mem: 483196 350104 133092 0 29076 178420
    -/+ buffers/cache: 142608 340588
    Swap: 0 0 0

    >From which it appears that swap memory is not active.

    In addition when the system is rebooted I get a warning that "line 10 of
    /etc/fstab is bad", or something like this. Line 10 corresponds to swap
    memory.
    It reads as follows:

    LABEL==i386 -mcpu=i68 swap swap defaults 0 0

    Any hints on how to correct this?

    Thanks in advance,

    Gustavo J. Mata 

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