Activating swap in fedora 9?

Question

i installed fedora 9 the day it came out, and then last week decided to add a swap partition. how do i get it to automatically activate

Answer 1

To use it immediately you would use the swapon command. You can put an entry for it in /etc/fstab so that its recognised at boot up. You entry would be something like the one below,

Code:

/dev/hda5     swap     swap    defaults    0 0

NOTE: the /dev/hd** is variable depending on your configuration.