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ohyes · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 159 Location: Right Here

Noticed in my HDD installed Puppy 2.14 that when I click on the 'drives' the swap partition says its 'off' if I click on 'swap' the status changes to 'in use'

Should the swap parttion have a status of 'in use' all the time ?
If yes how can I make it active everytime I boot.

Thanks to all posters in advance

Bruce B · Posted: Sat 05 May 2007, 03:17 Post subject:

No one knows the name of your swap file or its location.

You can turn it on with in /etc/rc.d/rc.local by adding the appropriate command.

swapon /locationof/nameofswapfile

If you have a swap partition but are calling it a swap file the command would be:

swapon /dev/????

where ???? is the device name of the swap partition, for an example:

swapon /dev/hda7

ohyes · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 159 Location: Right Here

Hi Bruce B,

Yes I meant to say partition sorry..to much windoze history Im afraid.

Now I added

swapon /dev/hda5

to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

and rebooted...then clicked on the 'drives' icon ..still says the swaps 'off' ?

Kal · Posted: Sat 05 May 2007, 03:53 Post subject:

Be aware that the button on MUT that states "swap off", is to turn the swap off, not that the swap is off. Confusing isn't it, for some of us.
Kal
Ps: You may not need your rc.local line.

ohyes · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 159 Location: Right Here

Kal

Um yeah confusing to me at least.. Smile

Mate I still didnt quite get it..but I do now

Thanks for clearing that up..hopefully this will help other no brainers

Cheers

Kal · Posted: Sat 05 May 2007, 04:07 Post subject:

"Use Swap" is a button also and not a status.
Kal

ohyes · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 159 Location: Right Here

Yeah I got it Kal thanks again

I was thinking to hard.. Laughing