root isnt allowed to make swapfile?

[RobinVossen]

Well I need to make a swapfile
Since when I do emerge (Gentoo) it says it doesnt have Enough Virtual memory.
I cant make a Swap Partition. So I thought Id make a swap file.
I knew how to do it, but I did check it with google looking here: GNU/Linux - Adding Swap Space on the Fly in Linux

I found out I made one small Mistake (not chmodding) but still after that I am not allowed to turn swap on when I do:
swapon /swapfile
I just get:
swapon: swapfile: Operation not permitted.
So, how can this been done?
I really need this swap file since I want to remerge something badly.

Cheers,
Robin

[Thrillhouse]

Are you trying to run swapon on a directory or is that a typo? What's the name and location of the file you're trying to use for swap?

[RobinVossen]

the file name is swapfile
and its located in root so /
thats why i did /swapfile
I tryed also without the Slash.
Doesnt work either.

[Thrillhouse]

What's the output of ls -l?

[RobinVossen]

The list of my root. ^^ (/etc /home etc)

And the output of

ls -l | grep swapfile is
-rw--------- 1 root root 135379968 Nov 26 14:52 swapfile

[Thrillhouse]

And the mkswap command was successful? Then I'm stumped. It might be best to delete the file and start again from scratch to be sure the steps are done in correct order.

[mrjohnson]

Is there something different about your configuration? You're not running any virtualization are you? (Xen or something else?)

Please send the contents of /etc/fstab...

[RobinVossen]

And the mkswap command was successful? Then I'm stumped. It might be best to delete the file and start again from scratch to be sure the steps are done in correct order.

Well I was Stumped as well.. I did it about 5 times now. And yet still Unsuccessful and the swap is made successfully.

Is there something different about your configuration? You're not running any virtualization are you? (Xen or something else?)

Please send the contents of /etc/fstab...

I am running in OpenVZ. But that shouldnt matter.
What does /etc/fstab to do with this? I am not trying to turn swap on during boot..

Anyhow Ill drop it for you anyhow:

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

[mrjohnson]

http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=420&

[RobinVossen]

Thanks a lot...