mkswap on every boot

Steve Pyatt steve.pyatt at voodoovenue.com
Thu Jun 10 02:47:54 UTC 2004


>>>>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...

Thanks for letting me know yours works. Mine doesn't.





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