Recognizing Swap Drive???
I've got 2 physical Hard Drives in my computer.
Drive (C:) and Drive (D:).
On Drive (C:) I have these three partitions set up.
(1) Windows XP (ntfs)
(2) Mepis (Ext2)
(3) Suse-gnome (Ext2)
On Drive (D:) I have created 2 partitions.
Linux Swap Drive (dev/hdc5)
Windows (ntfs) for extra storage and file manipulation.
In my etc/fstab file: it shows,
/dev/hdc5/mnt/hdc5 auto,noauto, users, exec 00
Does anything in this line need to be changed? Is there anything else I need to do to
get this Swap drive recognized and running under Mepis?
Richard
Your fstab Statement Is Wrong
Richard, your /etc/fstab statement is wrong for /dev/hdc5 if that is your swap space. You see, swap space isn't "mounted", it's "used". You show it as:
/dev/hdc5 /mnt/hdc5 auto,noauto, users, exec 00
The way adrianTM shows it is correct:
/dev/hdc5 (space) swap (space) swap (space) sw,pri=1 (space) 0 (space) 0
And I've deliberately exagerated the spaces necessary because they don't show up very well in these posts and I wasn't sure that your spacing was correct on your example 
Jon
Did you reboot?Mepis should
Did you reboot?
Mepis should recognize automatically the swap partition and use it.
Of course you can add something like this in #Static entries part of /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdc5 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
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