mkswap on every boot
Andrew Robinson
awrobinson at cox.net
Thu Jun 10 04:54:12 UTC 2004
jludwig wrote:
> 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?
I'm late to this thread so I hope I'm not spewing nonsense. I have a
similar problem with LinuxPPC on my Mac clone. Turns out I forgot to set
the partition id to Linux swap (82?). I'm afraid to try to set it now
because I don't want to mess up my Mac partitions. So I have to run
mkswap and swapon when I boot into LinuxPPC.
HTH,
Andrew Robinson
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