[NTLUG:Discuss] Swap Space

[Seth]

I would suggest re-adding it to your /etc/fstab, and then executing
swapon.  double-check the man page, but I don't think you need
any special options as long as you have an entry in /etc/fstab.

Seth

At 02:54 PM 2/2/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Does anyone know if it is possible to "mount" swap space
>on the fly in multi user mode?  I have a production system
>running RedHat 5.2 and somehow the entry for swap in /etc/fstab
>got deleted prior to my last re-boot.  So now I have no swap
>space.  There is a hard drive partition already set up, I would
>just like to tell the kernel to use it without having to re-boot....
>
>TIA,
>
>George
>
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