Used swap 0MB of 0MB - why?

[Steven Tully]

When you use "su -" instead of "su" it sets the paths for the shell
with respect to the new user.

it isnt a problem with mkswap since you are getting the response
"/dev/hda6: No such file or directory"

it sounds to me like your partitioning scheme isn't right. 

Be VERY careful with this as you can cause yourself more headache than
help, but try to use "fdisk /dev/hda"
Then "p" to print partition data
Then "q" to quit without writing changes

Post the output of the "p" command here.

Steven


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:25:02 +0100, Duncan Lithgow
<duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> 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 ~]#
> 
> 
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