swap partition missing?
Hongwei Li
hongwei at wustl.edu
Tue Mar 22 14:52:46 UTC 2005
> Hongwei Li wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just found that my fc3 system's swap partition is "gone". When I
>> installed the system, I set it to 1Gb. The kernel is 2.6.10-1.766_FC3.
>> I
>> don't know when it started, but here are some information:
>>
>> # free
>> total used free shared buffers
>> cached
>> Mem: 1035748 658792 376956 0 145380
>> 272540
>> -/+ buffers/cache: 240872 794876
>> Swap: 0 0 0
>>
>> # cat /etc/fstab
>>
>> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
>> LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults
>> 1 1
>> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
>> 0 0
>> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
>> 0 0
>> LABEL=/home1 /home ext3
>> defaults,usrquota
>> 1 2
>> LABEL=/opt /opt ext3 defaults
>> 1 2
>> none /proc proc defaults
>> 0 0
>> none /sys sysfs defaults
>> 0 0
>> LABEL=/tmp1 /tmp ext3 defaults
>> 1 2
>> LABEL=/usr1 /usr ext3 defaults
>> 1 2
>> LABEL=/var1 /var ext3
>> defaults,usrquota
>> 1 2
>> LABEL=SWAP-hda7 swap swap defaults
>> 0 0
>> ...
>>
>> I tried this:
>>
>> # swapon -a
>> swapon: cannot find the device for LABEL=SWAP-hda7
>
> Your swap partition probabliy doesn't have a label anymore, or it
> doesn't exist anymore.
>
>>
>> The system log does not show anything related to this problem. Can
>> somebody tell me what may cause this problem? how to check it further
>> and
>> fix it?
>>
>
> What is the output from fdisk -l (run by root)?
>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Hongwei Li
>>
>
> Alex
The output is:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 127 1020096 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 128 2932 22531162+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 2933 5737 22531162+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 5738 9729 32065740 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 5738 8542 22531131 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 8543 9307 6144831 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 9308 9562 2048256 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda8 9563 9729 1341396 83 Linux
Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
What should I do? Thanks!
Hongwei
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