Ubuntu not using the swap partition

[Ioannis Vranos]

OS: Ubuntu 7.10 x86.


During installation I had created a partition named /hdc1 for swap, but
 Ubuntu is not using it:


john at john-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc3             292G   13G  265G   5% /
varrun                506M  132K  506M   1% /var/run
varlock               506M     0  506M   0% /var/lock
udev                  506M  104K  506M   1% /dev
devshm                506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
lrm                   506M   34M  472M   7%
/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile
/dev/hdc2             942M   35M  860M   4% /boot
john at john-desktop:~$



root at john-desktop:~# fdisk /dev/hdc

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 38913.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hdc: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x99999999

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1           38793       38913      971932+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdc2   *           1         122      979933+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc3             123       38792   310616775   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Command (m for help):



Any ideas on how to make Ubuntu use it?



Thanks,

Ioannis