problem when adding swap file

pjwelsh · Post by **pjwelsh** » 2011/01/20 03:59:58

You may be wanting to use "mkswap" then "swapon".

pjwelsh · Post by **pjwelsh** » 2011/01/20 16:34:20

You should run "man mkswap" and then "man swapon" and then maybe ask questions :-P

gerald_clark · Post by **gerald_clark** » 2011/01/20 16:39:49

The OP's problem is that he is missing /dev/zero.

This device node is created in the /dev/ directory at boot.
If this node is still missing after a reboot, then there is a serious problem

Post by **AlanBartlett** » 2011/01/20 17:55:05

As a purely temporary solution --

[code]
[b]mknod /dev/zero c 1 5[/b]
[/code]

pschaff · Post by **pschaff** » 2011/01/20 23:00:49

Welcome to the CentOS fora. Reading [url=https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=47]FAQ & Readme First[/url] is recommended for new users.

[quote]
A7med_Baraka wrote:
...
when i checked /dev there is no file names zero ??!!

any help ASAP plz[/quote]

As Gerald said, if you have no /dev/zero then something is seriously wrong. Please give us a bit more background including the information suggested by [url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=25128&forum=47]How to provide information about your system[/url] and anything that may be peculiar about the history or behavior of the system.

Also, as explained in [url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14274&forum=47]Readme First[/url], you are encouraged [i][b]not[/b][/i] to use texting abbreviations such as "plz"

pschaff · Post by **pschaff** » 2011/01/21 15:45:56

[quote]
A7med_Baraka wrote:
...
any suggest ??[/quote]
Please [re]read [url=http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=25128&forum=47]How to provide information about your system[/url] and provide the output file from [b]./getinfo.sh disk[/b] .

Edit:
[quote]
A7med_Baraka wrote:
for your notice i am trying to apply this on VPS, is this maybe make any problem ??
[/quote]
That is a good possibility.

pschaff · Post by **pschaff** » 2011/01/21 17:33:05

Did you not see a section similar to the following on the terminal output?[code]
########################
Results are in the file:
* /tmp/basedata.K13135 *
########################
[/code]

If not, then please run the following commands and provide the output:[code]
uname -rmi
rpm -qa \*-release\*
cat /etc/redhat-release
cat /etc/fstab
[/code]
Edit: One more question. Did you run swapon as root?

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