[CS-FSLUG] Oh man

[David M]

On Friday July 29 2005 9:49 pm, David M wrote:

HA! HA! never mind, I fixed it, I just added it to my fstab and rebooted. now 
everything is BLAZING FAST!!!!

> 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

-- 
David M.