mkswap on every boot
jludwig
wralphie at comcast.net
Thu Jun 10 04:40:20 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 22:48, 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?
> >>>
> >>>
> >My fstab has this for swap. Is yours the same?
>
> >/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults
> 0 0
>
> Except mine is hda1
I have had swap partitions fail mount on (rare occasions) boot because
of hard shutdowns. Could something be corrupting the swap partition on
shutdown?
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jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
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