Hello All,
Maybe this might sound stupid, but can you create a linux swap partition?
I've tried this using GParted, and I keep getting the attached.
Charles
Title: GParted Details
GParted 0.4.5
Libparted 1.8.8
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Format /dev/sda6 as linux-swap 00:00:01 ( ERROR )
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calibrate /dev/sda6 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
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path: /dev/sda6
start: 1056450528
end: 1072949219
size: 16498692 (7.87 GiB)
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set partition type on /dev/sda6 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS )
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new partition type: linux-swap
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create new linux-swap file system 00:00:00 ( ERROR )
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mkswap -L "" /dev/sda6
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BusyBox v1.8.2 (2007-11-30 09:20:42 GMT-8) multi-call binary
Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] device [block-count]
Prepare a disk partition to be used as swap partition
Options:
-c Check for read-ability
-v0 Make version 0 swap [max 128 Megs]
-v1 Make version 1 swap [big!] (default for kernels > 2.1.117)
block-count Number of block to use (default is entire partition)
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