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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:07:48
Message-Id: i5b3tv$5dd$2@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers by Dale
1 On 08/28/2010 04:36 PM, Dale wrote:
2 > Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
3 >> Dale schrieb am 28.08.2010 13:13:
4 >>> P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*.
5 >>>
6 >> It is swap :)
7 >>
8 >> swappoff -a
9 >> mkswap -L label device
10 >> swapon -a
11 >>
12 >
13 > I found that later while reading some other man page. I got to look into
14 > that swapon -a option tho. Never seen that before. I think I know what
15 > it is tho.
16
17 It enabled the swap. The boot init scripts automatically do a swapon -a
18 when you boot. But since you need to do a swappoff -a first and disable
19 the swap in order to recreate it, you need to enable it again manually
20 with swapon -a if you don't reboot.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>