Re: swapon: device or resource busy

[Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>]

1. Can you post the output of mount and the command you issued + their output 
(copy-paste from the terminal)?
2. You didn't mention swapon for /dev/hda7. Have you run it?

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• To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
• Subject: swapon: device or resource busy
• From: "jennyw" <jendebian@dangerousideas.com>
• Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 10:11:30 -0700
• Message-id: <[🔎] 001f01c0e6d0$154b0d00$04a8a8c0@SEIUKD79MN2256>

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

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	Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>

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