FC3 - Swap partition does not come up automatically on booting.

[Alexander Spanke]

Hi,

i had the same problems on my laptop, but with changing LABEL...
to /dev/hda... I got rid of the problem ..

Regards
 Alex

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 16:02 +0300, Kinjal Shah wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am having a strange problem after installing FC3 on two machines. On
> both machines the swap partition did not come up automatically when i
> booted the machine.
> 
> when i do  "free" it gives me the following output.
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       2058472     329424    1729048          0      99224     108404
> -/+ buffers/cache:     121796    1936676
> Swap:           0          0             0
> 
> my /etc/fstab shows the following
> 
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=SWAP-hda6         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/hdd                /media/cdrom            auto   
> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed
> 0 0
> /dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto   
> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed
> 0 0
> 
> i even tried to change the label from SWAP-hda6 to /dev/hda6 but still
> the same result.
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Kinjal Shah
> 
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