Brizzzer

Good news making the swap partition 1GB did the trick. I have not had a problem yet!!! This is so cool. Now time to see what I can do with this thing.

aytope

i have tried mkswap command but the system still sees the old swap of 188mb. so how do i increase it to something higher?

Opnosforatou

I haven't experienced this with Slackware, only with Red Hat and Fedora.
Don't know the exact cause of this.

To create a swap partition use fdisk /dev/hda
use the key: P to show all active partitions.
Create an partition double the size of your available memory
save the new disk info, save using: wq (W=write,Q=quit)
and reboot.
Note: /dev/hda is used as example here, you could use a swappartition of your 2nd disc, that would be /dev/hdb

After rebooting login as root.
type:
Important: the number is of the partition you created for the swap, to check what number that partition has use fdisk /dev/hda and the P to show the partition table information.

to activate the swapfile:
Now edit your fstab in /etc and add the following line:
It is also possible to use multiple swap partitions.
Let say you have a swap partition of 128MB on DiskB and 128MB on DiskC
Then you add the following to the fstab
Note: Your fstab file contains all partitions, drives, etc that will be mounted at boot time.
For further info on the fstab type: man fstab and enjoy the reading.

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