> I know this is fixed in the latest GnuMach, but I have already > experienced the swap-partition clobbering and wondered how to go about > resetting a Linux swap partition. It is not a gnumach issue. It is fixed in the latest hurd. > Do I need to delete the partition and re-create it in cfdisk? Or can > I run a mkfs sort of utility to write the proper signatures? You need to run mkswap.