Hi,
Recenltly, I repartitioned my harddisk. What I did is to delete
the swap parttion(/dev/hda2), created a 2gig linux
partition(/dev/hda2), then created a swap partition(/dev/hda3).
My fdisk output looks like this:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 8400 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 4063 2047720+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 4064 8127 2048256 83 Linux native
/dev/hda3 8128 8400 137592 82 Linux swap
Command (m for help):
Now, when I do a w command, I get the following:
Syncing disks.
Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated.
WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x
partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional
information.
My first question: why is it happening? Do I have to reboot??
Anyway I did a reboot as suggested. But linux still cannot see the
new swap partitions created, dmesg shows the following:
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 36k freed
Unable to find swap-space signature
Unable to find swap-space signature
My second question: How do I activate the swap partition??
Thanks for the help.
Shao.
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