Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap
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> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 4063 2047720+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda2 4064 8127 2048256 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda3 8128 8400 137592 82 Linux swap
Wrong. You created Swap as a primary partition, but it has to be logical.
(/dev/hda4 it will be)
> Syncing disks.
> Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
> Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated.
> My first question: why is it happening? Do I have to reboot??
This is ok. You have to reboot to update the partition table, but dont
change the fstab file yet (you can, though)
Once you boot it up, do mkswap /dev/hda4
Then swapon
Andrew
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