Give us a copy of the fstab file and the report from fdisk for your
partition tables. If hdc1 is a swap partition, do you have any other
mounted partitions /dev/hdc? That would isolate whether Linux is having
trouble with the drive in general.
Matthew Zaleski
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry Flaxman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 7:00 PM
> To: Expert mailing list
> Subject: [expert] Swap Device
>
>
> I originally configured. my Mandrake 7.0 accidentally with NO SWAP
> device. It was misconfigured and somehow the system thought it was on
> hda6, which it is not. I have repartitioned one of my hard drives ,
> hdc1, to be the swap file. The fstab entry is proper. The device has
> been partitioned and formatted under DOS. I have tried this with no
> formatting and formatting. I get an error message that the kernal
> doesn't support the filesystem swap. hdc1 is not mounted, and the OS
> goes to turn on swapping and fails. If I look at linuxconf under
> KDE.....it shows the device being set up for swap. I get no
> swapping at
> all, and my system just keeps grabbing real ram until it fills up.
>
> Oh yes, I have tried mkswap and get an error that 130048 is
> larger than
> device which has 0 size.
>
> Wondering if there were any tips on this one, that someone could give
> me.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Harry
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