[OLUG] swap partition fun

[Adam Lassek]

Yes, I have a crapload of partitions in this system :)
(hda1 is windows, hdb is my cd-rom, hdc1 & 2 are fat partitions for when
Windows tanks hdc5 - 8 are my Linux partitions and hdd is my cdrw. Maybe I
should start thinking about scsi)

kaygee wrote:

> Do you really have three seperate HDD's?
>
> Let us know a little about your setup and maybe something will come of it.
> >From just looking at what you gave I don't see any errors but with more
> information I'd be able to make a saner guess.
>
> Keith
> ----------
> There's ease of use and then there's ease of usefulness.
> Choose usefulness. Choose Linux.
>
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Adam Lassek wrote:
>
> > I recently gave myself a larger swap partition 'cause I though it was a
> > bit too small, and now when the system boots up it says /dev/hdc8:
> > invalid argument. I'm not sure what I did wrong here, I set the value to
> > 82 in fdisk. here's the line for it in /etc/fstab:
> > /dev/hdc8     swap    swap    defaults 0 0
> > Am I missing something here? I've never really set up a swap partition
> > myself before, so I don't really know the procedure.
> >
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