mkswap on every boot

ne... akabi at speakeasy.net
Thu Jun 10 01:27:14 UTC 2004


On Jun 9, 2004 at 20:15, Steve Pyatt in a soothing rage 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?
>
>>Does fdisk report the partition as being of type 82 (Linux  swap)?
>
>Yes it does. type 82 Linux Swap
K. My fstab line is listed below:
/dev/hdb14   swap   swap    defaults    0 0

I have no problems with it. It gets mounted properly when I boot.

N.Emile...
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