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I've a Slitaz installation on an old HP Pavilion (AMD Turion) with an internal ata flash disk formatted like this:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14882 119537664 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14882 15404 4193280 82 Linux swap
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundaryThe swap partition is also in /etc/fstab
But, according to what says conky (with the default Slitaz conky config file) swap is disabled.
I looked for grub.conf to configure the swap partition in grub, but i didn't find it. grub is the bootloader i know less (more yaboot and lilo 
), but i remember from debian, there was a grub.conf file in /etc.
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The definitive command to know if swap is on is:
[c]free[/c]
Swap should be on if it is in fstab. Browse the system messages to look for related errors:
[c]dmesg|less[/c]
(In "less", hit "/" to begin a search, type the word to search for, then "Enter". Then "n" to search again.)
Are you sure your swap partition is swap-formatted? The FS ID in the partition table is not enough to be sure. It doesn't hurt to reformat it:
[c]mkswap /dev/sda2[/c]
as root, but PLEASE BE 100% SURE /dev/sda2 IS THE CORRECT DEVICE NUMBER!
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Thanks for answering. free says:
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 2071908 1309340 762568 0 87768
-/+ buffers: 1221572 850336
Swap: 4193276 0 4193276
Yes i'm sure it's swap formatted. cfdisk says:
sda1 Boot Primäre ext4 122406,57*
sda2 Primäre swap 4293,92*
In dmesg|less i did not find anything related to swap.
My fstab looks like this:
# /etc/fstab: Information about static filesystems.
#
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660 user,ro,noauto 0 0
#/dev/sda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
#/dev/hdb1 /mnt/data btrfs defaults 0 2
#datasvr:/nfs/home /home nfs tcp,nolock 0 0
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
Just out of curiousity: Why sda1 is not there? Btw, i did not touch fstab; it's those formed during the installation of Slitaz i presume-
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As yours my fstab doesn't show /dev/sda1
Just type $mount and you'll see something like
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
Have a nice day
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I tried $mount as user and as root, but nothing shows up ... ???
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Swap: 4193276 0 4193276
Congratulations, you have swap!
I tried $mount as user and as root, but nothing shows up
"$" represents the prompt of a normal user in a terminal (# is the prompt for root).
So the command is "mount". Native commands never contain special characters (only letters, digits, -, _, and exceptionally +).
If you're going to use SliTaz regularly, buy yourself a book on Linux, it will prove very useful!
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Also, never type as root a command you don't know, if you've not been told to do so. This is dangerous!
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@emninger
Not familiar at all with fstab file but maybe you don't see sda1 in it because it's the root
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fstab is not required to mount a device. Basically it is a list of "known" filesystems, describing their type, parameters, etc. and assigning a mount point to each. This allows to type e.g. [c]mount /home[/c] and mount will take the missing info from fstab (the regular syntax to call mount is [c]mount -o options -t type /device /mountpoint[/c]).
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Thanks ilev! A good lesson 
Actually i'm on another machine. Will try later on.
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