swap not turned on at boot

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Dec 13 21:23:26 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 16:18 -0500, ron wrote:
> Here is some more output:
> 
> # /sbin/swapon
> 
> usage: swapon [-hV]
>        swapon -a [-e] [-v]
>        swapon [-v] [-p priority] special|LABEL=volume_name ...
>        swapon [-s]
> 
> [root at coresix ron]# /sbin/swapon -v LABEL=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
> 
> swapon on LABEL=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
> 
> swapon: cannot find the device for LABEL=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01

Do not include the "LABEL=" in the swapon command.  Use:

	/sbin/swapon -v /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01

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