Re: What's the command to create swap in hurd

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

deFreese, Barry wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alfred M. Szmidt [mailto:ams@kemisten.nu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 12:25 PM
> > To: westk@acu.edu
> > Cc: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: What's the command to create swap in hurd
> >
> >
> >   What's the command in the hurd to create a swap filesystem on my
> >   swap partition? In Linux it's mkswap, but that command doesn't
> >   exist for me in the hurd.
> >
> > swapon is what we use.
> >
> >    
>
> Of course this is assuming you created a swap partition and initilized it?
> (I think)
>
>
>  
Yes, what I'm asking is what the command is to initialize a swap 
partition. I've already defined it via cfdisk via KNOPPIX before I 
started installing the hurd, but I forgot to initialize it. And my 
understanding to actually activate an initialized swap partition is to 
use the "swapon" command. So I have the beginning and end; I just don't 
have the middle, that of initializing the partition.

Thanks!

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Kent