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[randy@xxxxxxxxxx (Randy Rathbun)]

To see if a swap partition is running, you can use top or free. If it
shows anything in swap, it is running. 

Now, to get a swap running, do this:
edit /etc/fstab and add this as the second line
  /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 

The reason I say second line is that normally the root partition is on the
first line. It just makes things nicer in the file

Now that the line is there, do 

wapon /dev/hda3

Now do free. You should see stuff in the swap part of the output.

Randy Rathbun
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Silvia Nieto Santos wrote:

>    Hello,
> 
>   When I installed linux I don't create a swap partition, but I need it
> now.
> 
>     I have the partition /dev/hda3, with 130Mb but how can I active it?,
> 
> how can I prove that the partition is active?
> 
> 
>     Thank you very much.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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