Puppy 2.16 not recognizing USB flash swap

[ravenxau]

I have been trying to use a usb flash drive fir the swapfile on puppy 2.16. I have partitioned the flash drive with a 128MB linux swapfile but when i boot the laptop the swapfile is not recognized when i type free in a console.

Any hints or tips would be most welcome.

[Semme]

Ravenxau- run fdisk -l to ID the partition, then swapon /dev/<partition>

If you're not sure about your setup, dump an fdisk -l here first.

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fdisk -l > /root/fdisk.txt

Now open /root/fdisk.txt'n c/p...

[ravenxau]

Ravenxau- run fdisk -l to ID the partition, then swapon /dev/<partition>

If you're not sure about your setup, dump an fdisk -l here first.

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Trouble with copy'n paste through the terminal?

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fdisk -l > /root/fdisk.txt

Now open /root/fdisk.txt'n c/p...

thanks for the help, the ID on the partition was incorrect - at least i know what to look for now.