Bruce Newland wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am having a problem with my swap file and I believe it is the /etc/fstab
> entry.
>
> Here is the line of fstab:
> /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> Here is what happens when I try to set swap to /dev/hda3:
> [root@pepper /]# swapon /dev/hda3
> swapon: warning: /dev/hda3 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600 suggested
> swapon: /dev/hda3: Invalid argument
> [root@pepper /]#
>
> I have hunted high and low for more docs on fstab, but to no avail.
> Any Ideas?
Check the permissions on /dev/hda3. They're probably "brw-rw----". Use
this:
chmod 600 /dev/hda3
to change them.
It's rather odd that you're getting a problem with this. Checking my
swap partition in /dev shows that the permissions are 660 also, but I
haven't seen any errors.
If changing the permissions doesn't work, check the partition type
(fdisk -l /dev/hda) to ensure it's set to Linux swap. Also, did you run
'mkswap /dev/hda3' before attempting the 'swapon'?
--
Steve Philp
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