swapon not working

[Dan Track]

On 7/25/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Dan Track wrote:
> > I just created a partition using fdisk. I labelled the partition "82"
> > i.e swap. Now when I do "swapon /dev/hda9" I get "swapon: /dev/hda9:
> > Invalid argument".
> >
> > Can anyone help me fix this?
> 
> Did you format the swap partition?
> 
> See "man mkswap"
> 
> Paul.
> 
Great that was it.

Thank
Dan