problems in activating swap

[John Thompson]

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Colin J Thomson wrote:

| On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 09:17, Rajiv wrote:
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|>Dear All,
|>    I created a swap partition in fdisk wrote the filesystem and
|>restarted. I am getting errors while activating it using swapon
|><partition name>
|>
|>Kindly suggest what is to be done. The swap manual says swapon <partition
|>name> will work. Also suggest any good sites for the same.

| You need to run "mkswap" on the "swap partition" after you created it,
| example:
|
| mkswap /dev/sda3

Or even "mkswap -c /dev/sda3" just to be safe...

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- -John (john at os2.dhs.org)
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