On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, John Starkey wrote:
> Murphy's baaack!!!!
>
> Now I am having a problem and trying to make more swap space I came
> across the mkswap command.
>
> I did:
>
> mkswap hdb1
>
> I'm using RH6.1, please tell me this didn't erase hdb1!!!
It will erase what was there yes, so you are saying there was a ext2
filesystem on /dev/hdb1 ? and no doubt it was the root filesystem for
your distro, ??.
> I tried mount /dev/hdb1 but I get:
>
> VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,65).
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
> or too many mounted filesystems
That is just what it will say, but you now have plenty of swap space.
>
> Is there a way out of this???
Yep, reinstall.
>
> TIA again,
>
> John
>
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