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Re: Swap partition



On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I used to have a 16MB swap partition on hda2 but i deleted it and added a
> bigger partition using fdisk which has now become hda5.
> 
> The problem is that when i shut down the system... it comes up with a
> prompt deactivating swap...cannot find hda2.
> 
> So basically i think that the system is still set up to use hda2 which is
> now replaced with hda5... how can i reconfigure the system to use hda5?

look at the file /etc/fstab: there should be 

/dev/hda5	none	swap ...

instead of 

/dev/hda2	none 	swap ...

Martin

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