Bug#2533: rc.boot should activate swap before running fsck

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Bruce Perens) wrote:
> Package: sysvinit
>
> I've been testing the Debian installation on a machine with 4MB RAM and
> a 1.2 GB disk. /etc/init.d/boot runs fsck.ext2 before activating the swap
> partition. fsck.ext2 runs out of memory and complains
> "fsck.ext2: %s: Can't allocate buffer for inode count". Please change it
> to activate the swap partition as early as possible in the booting process.

You are not the first one to notice this, so I've already changed this in my
copy. It will be in the next revision (2.59-2).

Mike.
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