no swap file

[terry_g]

I just did an install of fedora 4 and every thing went well except no swap file was created during the install. I chose automaticly partition and personal desktop. I've done a lot of fedora installs all previous ones were dual boot with windows after I install windows I use partition magic to creat and format the fedora partitions. This is the first time I used automatic partitioning.
This is the hardware, Asus a7v33-x mobo, athlon xp1800 processor, 512 megs of ddr333 ram, 20gig maxtor
hard drive.
is a swap file necessary is 512 megs of ram enough the computer will be used for internet, downloading music, and internet chat.
Is there a way I can create a swap file using the install disk, or is there a better way?
I am building this computer for a freind and he has never used linux and I want it to work well.
Thanks Terry

[tomcat]

Are you absolutely sure that the swap partition was not created? A known bug was that the fstab entry for swap was wrong and writing a correct entry fixed this and activated swap.

Swap files can be created later but it is a little bit of work if you don't have unallocated space left on your hd.

[Tashiro]

Hi Terry,

Try this as root at the CLI

fdisk -l

To print out your partition table, so you can see what's created.

Tashiro

[terry_g]

when I isseu this command I get:
[root@localhost terry]# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 26 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 27 2434 19342260 8e Linux LVM
[root@localhost terry]#

No swap partition

[taurus]

It could be because you use that stupid Partition Magic and you told it to convert those partitions to Linux, 83, while swap space has a value of 82... So, erase everything and repartition your drive over again, using FC not PM!!!

[brunson]

By default FC4 swaps to LVM. What does "swapon -s" say?

[terry_g]

I used disk druid on the fedora core 4 install cd not partition magic to partition the drive.

this line is from my /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0

this is the output from the swapon -s command
[root@localhost terry]# /sbin/swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 partition 1048568 0 -1
[root@localhost terry]#

[brunson]

So, you have a swap partition, but it's a Logical Volume. That's the way it's supposed to be in FC4.

[terry_g]

Back in the redhat 8.0 days you were supposed to create a swap partition, old habits die hard.
thanks for your help everyone