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- From: greg@carnivore.tamu.edu (Greg Economides)
- Subject: problems making a swap partition useable
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.162500.16716@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Keywords: 0.97.1
- Sender: news@tamsun.tamu.edu (Read News)
- Organization: Center for Biosystems Modelling, Texas A&M University
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:25:00 GMT
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- I installed linux 0.97.1 last night on my hard disk and am having difficulty
- getting the swap partition set up. The disk is a connor 350 Meg IDE.
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- I set up three partitions for linux: one primary partition for root (10Meg), two
- partitions in the extended partition, 10Meg for swap, 64Meg for /usr.
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- root is /dev/hda1, swap is /dev/hda5 and /usr is /dev/hda6. Here is what
- efdisk says about /dev/hda5:
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- Begin Start End Blocks ID System
- /dev/hda5 556417 556417 577583 10583+ 82 Linux swap
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- When I do: mkswap -c /dev/hda5 10583, I get this:
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- mkswap: will not try to make swapdevice on /dev/hda5
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- I am wondering if mkswap is complaining because the partition does not
- end at an even boundary (or whatever it is that the '+' indicates, I don't
- remember the exact wording in the fdisk intro file).
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- What shall I do to get the swap partition working?
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- Peace,
- --
- Greg Economides, Systems Administrator, Center for Biosystems Modelling
- Texas A&M University
- Internet: econ@tamu.edu
- Fuzzy logic -- "Everything is not always something"
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