Used swap 0MB of 0MB - why?

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:14 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> Steven Tully wrote:
> 
> >Use "swapon -s" to determine if you have a swapfile or partition in use.
> >If that isn't listed, try "swapon /dev/hda6" to turn it on and use the
> >previous command to see if it is running.
> >If not, recreate your swapfile with "mkswap /dev/hda6" and then use
> >"swapon /dev/hda6"
> >
> >Hope that helps...
> >
> >Steven
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:44:53 +0100, Duncan Lithgow
> ><duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I've recently had a few applications get killed off by full memory. So I
> >>looked at System Monitor and it says:
> >>Used Memory      218MB of 502MB
> >>Used swap            0MB of 0MB
> >>
> >>Somethings wrong right? I've checked fstab and it looks normal (
> >>/dev/hda6   swap swap defaults 0 0 ) but I've obviously done something
> >>wrong if my system can't even see my swap partition.
> >>
> >>I can't find anything helpful for 'fedora configure swap' 'fedora test
> >>swap' on google.
> >>
> >>ideas?
> >>
> >>Duncan
> >>
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> >  
> >
> Neither swapon nor mkswap are recognised by my bash terminal. I get a 
> lot of that trying to follow what people suggest - is something wrong 
> with that too!?
> 

are you either logged in as root? or if logged in as a regular user did
you do "su -" to get to root so these commands could be run?