On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 03:54:00PM +0530, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On 20/10/01 02:55 -0700, Cacofonixx the bard wrote: > > hi junta back with a dumb prob though i dunno how to solve.. > > basically i deleted my swap partition and then when i recreated it . > > swapon says that swap-space signature not found > > i had after creating the partition run mke2fs and then mkswap on it > > .. anything else i shud have done .. pl like BIsh Shridhar .. pls do > > First try changing the partition type to 0x83 (swap) from 0x82 (Linux). > If that doesn't work, I suggest deleting the partition again and then > recreating it with type swap and then only using mkswap on it. > Then swapon /dev/hdax. > ---end quoted text---
Oops ... tongue-of-the-slip above. Type 82 = swap (NOT 83), otherwise, steps given by Devdas is the way to go ... a) fdisk /dev/hdx o p (print partition table info) o l (list partition types, you will see swap=82) o t (change partition id to 82) b) mkswap /dev/hdxN (running mke2fs is NOT to be done this will create a Type 83 partition which is not initialised with zeros, and mkswap will not work). c) On running system swapon /dev/hdxN (Do swapoff before shutdown). d) Recheck your fstab before that ... swap will load on reboot. Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : ext2 to ext3 conversion LOST #089 Point your browser to the following howto if u are interested in converting your existing ext2 filesystem to ext3 : http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>###################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
