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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 15:45:10 +1000
From: Gregory Shearman <zekeyg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Swap is manually 'swapon-able' but not via
 fstab...?
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In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  When I do a 
>  
>     beagleboneblack:/root>swapon /dev/sda2  
>     beagleboneblack:/root>free
>                 total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>     Mem:        507476      50812     456664          0      13108      17244
>     -/+ buffers/cache:      20460     487016
>     Swap:      5242876          0    5242876
>     
>
> swap is added to the system.
>
> If I add
>
>     /dev/sda2	none		 swap  sw		                 0 0
>
> swapspace will not be used after a reboot.
>
> dmesg has nothing specific...
>
> What did I wrong here? Why get swap not used via fstab?

Do you have swap added to the boot runlevel?

# rc-update add swap boot

-- 
Regards,
Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power

-- 
Regards,
Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power