Problem with loading swap partition, etc

**drtvasudevan** · 08-20-2005

I think my system is running without swap.

When I hit mount, I get:

Code:

rootfs on / type rootfs &#40;rw&#41;
/dev/root on / type reiserfs &#40;rw,noatime&#41;
/proc on /proc type proc &#40;rw,nodiratime&#41;
/sys on /sys type sysfs &#40;rw&#41;
/dev/hda7 on /home type reiserfs &#40;rw,noatime&#41;
/dev/hdb1 on /mnt/bridge type vfat &#40;rw,nodiratime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,fmask=0033,dmask=0033&#41;
none on /dev/pts type devpts &#40;rw&#41;
/dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type supermount &#40;ro,dev=/dev/cdrom,fs=iso9660,tray_lock=onwrite,--,iocharset=iso8859-1&#41;
/dev/scd0 on /mnt/cdwriter type supermount &#40;ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,tray_lock=onwrite,--,iocharset=iso8859-1&#41;
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs &#40;rw&#41;

I tried loading swap (my swap-formatted partition is at the third primary partition of my first IDE HDD and hence /dev/hda3, I presume. But I get:

Code:

root@yos vasudevan # mount -t swap /dev/hda3 swap
mount&#58; mount point swap does not exist

The relevant contents of my /etc/fstab:

Code:

/dev/hda4      /                reiserfs   notail,noatime                        1 1 
/dev/hda7      /home            reiserfs   notail,noatime                        1 2 
/dev/hda3      swap             swap       defaults                              0 0

IIRC even during bootup I get an error on this fstab entry.

Please advise. Thanks.

oz · 08-20-2005

Your swap file won't be mounted unless it's needed by the system, so if you have a lot of RAM, the swap partition will likely never be called up.

I have 1-gig of RAM and the swap file has never been used. Some users don't bother to install a swap partition at all. I have a 512meg swap file, but again, it's never used.

HTH...

**psic** · 08-20-2005

Originally Posted by drtvasudevan

IIRC even during bootup I get an error on this fstab entry.

What's the error?

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