[CS-FSLUG] Oh man

[Tim Young]

You fixed it just fine. If you did not have a swap partition, however, 
you could have set up a swap file. Linux, being what it is, treats a 
file like a partition, and a partition like a file.

The solution of that sort of thing is usually to boot into single user 
mode (which uses much less memory) and then set up swap from there. You 
use dd to create a file of a proper size, add an fstab entry, and you 
are all set.

Glad you got it set up.

- Tim

David M wrote:

>I've been running FC 4 for about 2 weeks now and I really like it, except for 
>1 thing, sometimes it would get real slow for some reason or even lock up for 
>a few minutes and I couldn't figure out why. Well I think I found out why 
>now! It's because it doesn't seem that my Swap space is being used. 
>KinfoCenter reports that 98% of my total memory is bing used and I have 
>3.83MB Free and it reports that the SWAP is not available and it appears as 
>if it's not bing used.
>
>I've spent sooooooooooo much time customizing my desktop, from fetching 
>pictures for my address book, getting everyone on my contact lists birthdays 
>and anniversaries and a whole lot more.
>
>Anyway it seems I may have to do a fresh installation because when I installed 
>this time, I didn't bother with the swap because I'm used to the installation 
>taking care of it, but that may not be the case.
>
>So here is what I need to know.
>
>1. is it possible to format the SWAP space and make FC use it without doing a 
>fresh install?
>
>2. If it's not possible, can I get a list of stuff I can back up to save my 
>settings so I don't have to do all this customizing all over again?
>
>My /home is on a seperate partition, but last I tried to format / and 
>keep /home intact it didn't work out too well and I found out some settings 
>are on / that I thought would have been in /home.
>
>Any suggestions would be so appreciated!
>
>Thanks so much
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