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But doesn't swapon -a only work for devices marked as swap in fstab (that's what the man page says)? So exactly what swap is being enabled with swapon -a?



Who knows? Generally, I use "swapon /swapfile". /swapfile is a symlink to /dev/hda6.

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Thanks for that. Would appreciate some more explanation of swap. How would I turn on swap on both drives?


If you want to use both swap partitions, then issue:

# swapon /dev/hda6
# swapon /dev/hdc6

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Also, what owner and group should everything be?


Doesn't matter -- everything on the player runs as root, completely bypassing any of that nonsense, anyway.
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