Used swap 0MB of 0MB - why?

[Duncan Lithgow]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> Duncan Lithgow wrote:
>
>> 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!?
>
>
> You've probably got the wrong PATH setting, by using "su" to become 
> root instead of "su -".
>
> Paul.
>
>
thanks, i've always used
 >>su root
what is
 >>su -
?

It didn't help though. I get

> [root at 3e6b347a dulithgow]# su -
> [root at 3e6b347a ~]# swapon -s
> [root at 3e6b347a ~]# mkswap /dev/hda6
> /dev/hda6: No such file or directory
> [root at 3e6b347a ~]#