On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:10:10 +0100, Piotr wrote:

> Somehow my swap /dev/hda7 stoped to work lately ;p i tried removing the 
> partition, making again, doing mkswap /dev/hda7 and nothin...
> At boot i get:
> swapon: /dev/hda7: Device or resource busy
> also i cant mount it later..

What do you have in /etc/fstab? What does swapon -s show?

This could be caused by having the same swap partition defined twice in
fstab. The first mounts successfully, the second, and any manual mount
attempts, would give this error.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Another casualty of applied metaphysics.

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