Some how I cannot turn my swap space on!nothing works mkswap,swapon,fstab looks fine.I have decided to do a LOW LEVEL formatting for my disk.Any way,any program to do that on RH6.0 Thanks chirag

The manufacturer of your hard drive will have low level formatting utilities. What does your partition table look like? Is the type set correct for the swap partition? How many drives do you have? Are you trying to spread the swap across them? I don't think that low level formatting your drive is the best solution here. Dumb Munky

Make sure that you have a swap partition defined. Keep in mind that IDE Drives are low level formatted at the factory, during that format they add data to the drive it needs to know about itself, it is intended to last the life of the drive, If you simply low level format the drive and do not re-encode that information, your drive will be useless. You may be able to obtain a utility from the manufacturer to reset the drive. In this case, unless your getting errors in high level formatting, it is most likely a problem with partitions. and I would not suggest a low level format. If you are truly having this hard of a time, I would suggest removing all your partitions !!WARNING!! this will trash all the data on your drive, Then booting with the OS boot disk and starting the installation process over again. I've never installed Red Hat, However I know that in Mandrake's version you have to make a swap partition, It is different from the standard Linux Partitions.