De-activate a swap partition - I don't believe it!

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 19 March 2006 20:33, Anne Wilson wrote:
>
> I used gparted to delete a couple of partitions and create a new one, then
> created a new one at the end, in some unallocated space.  Everything looked
> fine, and it started the final scan - the whole disk is marked Unallocated,
> and fdisk -l doesn't see anything.  Tomorrow I'll try testdisk to see
> whether it is recoverable, but if fdisk can't see it I'm not hopeful.
>
Quick question - if I can't recover, I'll start afresh.  I want a smallish 
swap partion and the rest in one big data partition if that happens.  
Question - is there any advantage in putting the swap first or last?

Anne
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