Re: swap problem

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 09 Jun 2004, Kolione wrote:
> i am running and older version of sarge,(havent upgraded in a while) and
> my swap will not mount, i get
> mount: mount point none does not exist
> the relevant part from my /etc/fstab
> 
> /dev/hda2       none    swap    sw      0 0
> 
> im wondering what i have missed, everything seems to be in order,
> checked google to no avail
> any information would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 

Are you using a 2.6 kernel? On changing to this recently from 2.4 I had
exactly the same experience as you. After fiddling for a bit without
success I did mkswap on the relevant /dev and I could then mount it
without difficulty. I don't know why this should be but it's what
happened.

Anthony


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