No swap on my Debian Sid system

[Jack Malmostoso <jackmalmostoso@freesurf.ch>]

Hello there list,

I have noticed today that my AMD64 box has no swap!
I set it up during the installation as the /dev/md1 RAID-1 device, but
today I found out in free that swap=0:

nostromo:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1003        456        547          0         17        235
-/+ buffers/cache:        203        800
Swap:            0          0          0

So I tried to set it up manually:

nostromo:~# mkswap -c /dev/sda2
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 509960 kB
no label, UUID=97b4cddf-1209-4c23-81f3-9deec9dd7c8a
nostromo:~# swapon /dev/sda2
swapon: /dev/sda2: Invalid argument

If I set up a swapfile, it works flawlessly:

nostromo:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=pippo.swp bs=1024 count=10000
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.121002 seconds, 84.6 MB/s
nostromo:~# mkswap -c pippo.swp 10000
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 10235 kB
no label, UUID=c46ec37b-360b-4bbc-a73b-bacac52b4562
nostromo:~# swapon pippo.swp

nostromo:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1003        472        531          0         18        247
-/+ buffers/cache:        206        797
Swap:            9          0          9


Any hints? I have added two swap entries in /etc/fstab but have not
rebooted yet to try them (work in progress :()...

-- 
Best Regards, Jack
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