Out of Free Storage error

[hugh at descartes.intlpress.com (Hugh Rutledge)]

OK,

/etc/fstab   directs me to fstool and there is no listing for 
/dev/hda6

I used fstool to add that partition using the information about the other
partitions to answer the questions that fstool insists on having answered.  

fstool was then willing to mount the partition and asked me whether I
wanted to remove 

/dev/hda6 which did not appear to be there any more.  I said no.

After closing fstool I now get:

swapon -a
swapon: /dev/hda6: Device or resource busy


swapon -s
swapon: /proc/swaps: No such file or directory

fstab now reads:

#
# /etc/fstab
#
# You should be using fstool (control-panel) to edit this!
#
# <device>    <mountpoint>   <filesystemtype> <options> <dump> <fsckorder>

/dev/hda1                 /                         ext2   defaults 1 1
/dev/hda7                 /d2                       ext2   defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom                /mnt/cdrom                iso9660 noauto,ro,user
0 0
/dev/fd0                  /mnt/floppy               ext2   noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hda5                 /usr                      ext2   defaults 1 2

none                      /proc                     proc   defaults
/dev/hda6                 none                      swap   sw

gauss:/home               /gauss/home               nfs    defaults



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On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Patrick McManus wrote:

> In a previous episode Hugh Rutledge said...
> :: 
> :: Reply is:
> :: 
> :: swapon:  /proc/swaps:  No such file or directory
> :: 
> :: Superuser can not make /proc/swaps as a directory.  There is an extremely
> :: large file /proc/kcore
> :: 
> 
> a] /proc/kcore is probably about the size of your RAM, eh? (hint
> things in /proc don't physically exist on disk, its a metaphor)
> 
> b] make sure you have /dev/hda6 defined in /etc/fstab
> 
> something like:
> /dev/hda6               swap                    swap    defaults 0 0
> 
> make sure you've initialized the partition (mkswap /dev/hda6)..
> 
> then run swapon -a 
> 
> .. swapon should be in your startup scripts and it will be automatic
> for you once the partition is initialized and in fstab.
> 
> -P
> 
> :: > :: /dev/hda6          296      296      312    34240+  82  Linux swap
> 

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