Re: swapon: device or resource busy

["jennyw" <jendebian@dangerousideas.com>]

Ooops! It was working after all (the reason it was busy was because I'd successfully mounted the swap partition). I was confused because there was also an error about missing swap signature or something like that (but it went away after I created the new swap partition and reformatted).

Thanks,

 

Jen

----- Original Message -----

From: jennyw

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 10:11 AM

Subject: swapon: device or resource busy

I recently changed my partition table, and ended up recreating a swap partition.  Ever since then, I keep getting the error "swapon: device or resource busy".

 

This is after running mkswap -c /dev/hda3 (where the current swap partition is) and updating fstab:

 

/dev/hda3    none    swap    sw    0    0

 

I even created a new swap partition on /dev/hda7, added it to fstab, and also ran mkswap -c on it. Same thing.

 

Any suggestions as to what could be causing this error?

 

Thanks!

 

Jen