Swap partition not installed. How do I install? [Solved]

[tetris11]

Hi there, I stupidly installed Sabayon without a swap thinking that my 4GB ram would cover everything, which it did. But obviously the system cant go into hibernate (nothing to copy to).

How do fix this?
I've already created an extended 4GB partition of free space to turn into swap drive. I just need to know the commands and what to edit.

Here's my current menu.lst:

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default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splashimages/stff.xpm.gz
title=Sabayon Linux
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.31-sabayon root=/dev/sda2
        initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.31-sabayon


title = Windows 7
        root (hd0,3)
        rootnoverify
        chainloader +1
        boot
title=Sabayon Linux (kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.31-sabayon)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.31-sabayon root=/dev/sda2
        initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.31-sabayon
        savedefault

I'm pretty sure a 'dev/ram' command is supposed to go there somewhere....
help?

Also here's my fdisk:

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Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2b83d6b9

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14       19188   154023187+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3           19189       30854    93707145    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4   *       30855       38914    64734208    7  HPFS/NTFS   #Win7
/dev/sda5           19190       22668    27945067+   7  HPFS/NTFS  #storage
/dev/sda6           22669       30332    61561048+   7  HPFS/NTFS  #storage
/dev/sda7           30333       30854     4192933+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

and here's my fstab:

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/dev/sda2               /                       ext3    user_xattr,noatime 1 1
/dev/sda1               /boot                   ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/sda7               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/shm                /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0


I'm not sure how helpful you may find this, but I think i've shown you everything relevant.

Thanks chovek

[joeoden]

I just need to know the commands and what to edit.

Read this http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=1&chap=4
Scroll down to Activating the Swap Partition

[tetris11]

Thanks.
I had to use systemrescueCD to carry out the commands, but I think it worked.

However Suspend and Hibernate functions still not working..... I smell a new topic