Re: swap partition question?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 05/05/08 08:17, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote:
> 
> I have a 1Gb primary swap partition (/dev/sda1)
> and fdisk -l shows that. But the command
> 
>  # swapon /dev/sda1
> 
> says that ..:/dev/sda1: is invalid argument.
> I made an entry in /etc/fstab (too):
>  /dev/sda1  none  swap sw 0 0
> 
> but swapon -a still syays that it is invalid argument!
> 
> Any pointers?

Have you "formatted" the partition with mkswap?

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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