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3.2.4.1.4 Enabling Swap Space

So now we need to add the swap partition to /etc/fstab so it's automatically enabled the next time we boot. We add the following line:

dev/hdb2               swap             swap   defaults           0 0

And we can enable the swap partition without rebooting by doing the following:

# swapon /dev/hdb2

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