usb flash drive as swap in linux

[Darrin Chandler]

Technomage wrote:

>I have made the required changes to fstab in order to use a 128 meg USB 
>device.
>
>only problem I seem to have is that even though the modules are loaded, it 
>will not initialize as swap space unless I issue a swapon -a from root after 
>startup.
>
>some help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>system is debian kernel 2.6.8-2-386 running on a compaq presario laptop.
>
>HELP!!!
>  
>

I'm not 100% on this, but I think it's trying to mount swap *before* 
you've got USB devices available. So it can't find swap. Then you log in 
and the flash driver is there and you can swapon. If that's the case 
you're S.O.L.

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