[OLUG] swap partition fun

[Adam Lassek]

Like I said, I've never had to set up a swap partition by hand before. What
does mkswap do? Do I need to run it after I fdisk hdc8 to format it for swap?

Dave Burchell wrote:

> Adam Lassek says:
>
> > 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.
>
> My /etc/fstab says:
>
> /dev/sdc2       none          swap   sw                         0      0
>
> Try changing that first "swap" in your file to "none".
>
> Also, did you run mkswap?
>
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