[NTLUG:Discuss] Swap Space

George E. Lass George.Lass at osc.com
Fri Feb 2 15:49:25 CST 2001


Thanks to all, after adding swap space to /etc/fstab,
I was able to do a swapon /dev/hda2

Thanks Again,

George

"George E. Lass" 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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