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I've made a swap partition for BookwormPup64_10.0.9 and for KLV-vmHost.

I can enable them using swapon /dev/sdx (swap partition)
How can I make this permanent for a reboot?

Thanks

Maybe it doesn't any more, but I think Puppy Linux used to look for a swap partition when it booted, and use it if it found it. Can you reboot and see if your Puppy OS is using the swap partition?

@Flash
I just saw that a reboot for BW did make it use the swap partition.

Now I just need to make it work for the KLV.

Thanks

KLV

Are you sure it is not also seeing and using the swap when it boots?

That has been normal boot process operation in Linux for a very long time.

bigpup wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 4:59 am

KLV

Are you sure it is not also seeing and using the swap when it boots?

That has been normal boot process operation in Linux for a very long time.

I have a 4G swap partition at sda3.
When I boot into KLV-vmHost and look for the swap I get this:

# free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           3.6Gi       661Mi       2.6Gi        71Mi       639Mi       3.0Gi
Swap:             0B          0B          0B
# 

I have to turn it on to make it start working:

# swapon /dev/sda3
# free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           3.6Gi       726Mi       2.6Gi        82Mi       677Mi       2.9Gi
Swap:          4.0Gi          0B       4.0Gi
#

Evidently it is supposed to just work?

Thanks

@JusGellin

Copy the script /root/Startup/swapon from KLV-Airedale to the same location or write a script that does your swapon command in /root/Startup

rockedge wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:59 pm

@JusGellin

Copy the script /root/Startup/swapon from KLV-Airedale to the same location or write a script that does your swapon command in /root/Startup

The KLV-vmhost has the same as KLV-Airedale:
/root/Startup/start_swapper

in start_swapper:

#!/bin/sh
#
swapper.sh

When I run this in KLV-vmhost, it says command not found
Running which swapper.sh shows it's missing /root/my-applications/bin, which KLV-Airedale has and where swapper.sh is found in both

also I can run the script swapper.sh which successfully starts the swap partition.

So how should the PATH be setup to include /root/my-applicatins/bin ?

Thanks

I've always added the swapon command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Trapster wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 2:57 pm

I've always added the swapon command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Thanks, but since it has all the workings to normally do this I wanted to make it the same as other KLV's.

I finally found where the PATH was built so I could include /root/my-applications/bin
From KLV-Airedale, I found the PATHs where set up in /etc/profile file.
In the section #Set our default path (/usr/sbin::bin included for non-Void chroots)
I added appendpath '/root/my-applications/bin'

After a reboot, it now enables the swap partition.