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From: Louis Hissink
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 00:00

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I suspect swap will be activated once system memory is filled up.  I have
not got to that stage yet.

Thanks for the advice.

Louis

al wrote in message <776j62$fo1$1@toto.tig.com.au>...
> I have only been using linux myself for a few months.use slackware.
>command to enable swap space is
>
># swapon <partition>
>
>in your case
>
># swapon  /dev/hda6
>
>redhat should have made the swap for you and enabled it during the install
>process.(ran redhat4.2 myself for awhile about a year ago)
>
>Louis Hissink wrote in message <3695C43E.5DDC7D25@bigpond.com>...
>>The details are produced by being superuser, running fdisk, and
>>specifiying partition data
>>
>>                        st        fin          blocks     System
>>/dev/hda1        1          3               24066    Linux Native (boot)
>>
>>/dev/hda2        4        527         4209030    Extended
>>/dev/hda5        4         522        4168836    Linux Native
>>/dev/hda6        523     527            40131    Linux Swap
>>
>>Each block is 1024 bytes
>>
>>I have yet to see Linux activate the swap file.
>>
>>Louis Hissink
>>
>
>

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