Re: [TCLUG:1704] swap partition question

[Andrew McCulloh <mcculloh@2z.net>]

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu> writes:

    Ben> On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Richard Seymour wrote:
    >> Newbie question: I have just cut the DOS partition on my laptop
    >> in half and using fdisk set its type ID to 82 (Linux
    >> Swap). What else do I have to do (if anything) to get Linux to
    >> use it as swap space? How do I confirm that it is?

    Ben> If you already have linux installed (I'm assuming you do
    Ben> because otherwise swap would be setup during the install),
    Ben> use fdisk to make a partition swap (type 82), I think you
    Ben> might have to reboot after this, I'm not sure.  

Right about the swap formatting part--wrong about the
rebooting--unlike windose 95 or NT linux very rarely needs to be
restarted. Besides the kernel there is only one other program that I
can think of which requires restart: init(8).

Andrew