Out of Free Storage error

[mcmanus at AppliedTheory.com (Patrick McManus)]

In a previous episode Hugh Rutledge said...
:: 
:: Reply is:
:: 
:: swapon:  /proc/swaps:  No such file or directory
:: 
:: Superuser can not make /proc/swaps as a directory.  There is an extremely
:: large file /proc/kcore
:: 

a] /proc/kcore is probably about the size of your RAM, eh? (hint
things in /proc don't physically exist on disk, its a metaphor)

b] make sure you have /dev/hda6 defined in /etc/fstab

something like:
/dev/hda6               swap                    swap    defaults 0 0

make sure you've initialized the partition (mkswap /dev/hda6)..

then run swapon -a 

.. swapon should be in your startup scripts and it will be automatic
for you once the partition is initialized and in fstab.

-P

:: > :: /dev/hda6          296      296      312    34240+  82  Linux swap

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