swap issue

[-~operator~-]

Hey there,

i created a swap space and would like to get it running on startup. /etc/fstab line looks like this:

/dev/sda4 /mnt/sda4 swap noauto,defaults 0 0 # AutoUpdate

when i try to get my swap space up and running, i do

swapon /dev/sda4

and everything is fine. But when i restart B|T, swap has gone.

then i found the line in rc.S:

# Enable swapping:
/sbin/swapon -a

changed it to

# Enable swapping:
/sbin/swapon /dev/sda4

but it's still not starting up automatically. dmesg says nothing about swap. Can anyone help me out with this? Where did i go wrong?

[ghaze]

My swap line in fstab looks like:

/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0

Works here.

From the swapon man page, about option -a:

-a All devices marked as ``swap'' swap devices in /etc/fstab are
made available, except for those with the ``noauto'' option.
Devices that are already running as swap are silently skipped.

Do you see your problem?

[-~operator~-]

i see, i see,
changed my fstab line, now it works. Many thanks!