swapon not working

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• Subject: swapon not working
• From: Dan Track <dan.track@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:22:53 +0100
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Hi

I just created a partition using fdisk. I labelled the partition "82"
i.e swap. Now when I do "swapon /dev/hda9" I get "swapon: /dev/hda9:
Invalid argument".

Can anyone help me fix this?

Thanks in advance
Dan

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