Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap
On Thu, 26 Aug, 1999 à 11:49:05AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> Recenltly, I repartitioned my harddisk. What I did is to delete
> the swap parttion(/dev/hda2), created a 2gig linux
> partition(/dev/hda2), then created a swap partition(/dev/hda3).
>
[...]
>
> Anyway I did a reboot as suggested. But linux still cannot see the
> new swap partitions created, dmesg shows the following:
>
[...]
> Unable to find swap-space signature
> Unable to find swap-space signature
>
> My second question: How do I activate the swap partition??
>
You could have found the answer in two steps :
-$ apropos swap
would have listed you all the man pages dealing with swap, then
-$ man mkswap
would have explained to you all that you needed.
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