I always set up my swap partition as a primary partition and I don't have that problem. I can never read the blocks right, but it looks like the swap partition is more than 128MB. You can set up multiple swap partitions but they can not be more than 128MB.
-Michael Michael Konrad Computer Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] College of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse University 315-443-9367 >>> Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/25/99 09:58PM >>> > > 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 Wrong. You created Swap as a primary partition, but it has to be logical. (/dev/hda4 it will be) > Syncing disks. > Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. > Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated. > My first question: why is it happening? Do I have to reboot?? This is ok. You have to reboot to update the partition table, but dont change the fstab file yet (you can, though) Once you boot it up, do mkswap /dev/hda4 Then swapon Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org <--All the pages bundled together. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null