mkswap on every boot

[Jeff Vian]

Steve Pyatt wrote:

>>>I'm running FC2 and have my swap setup on a separate drive. It was 
>>>formatted as a swap and everything looks good in /etc/fstab. However 
>>>every time I reboot I have to run a mkswap and swapon against it. Is 
>>>there any thoughts on this? Or is there anyway I can get that done on 
>>>boot?
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My fstab has this for swap.  Is yours the same?

/dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0


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>>Does fdisk report the partition as being of type 82 (Linux  swap)?
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>Yes it does. type 82 Linux Swap
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