On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 09:17, Rajiv wrote: > Dear All, > I created a swap partition in fdisk wrote the filesystem and > restarted. I am getting errors while activating it using swapon > <partition name> > > Kindly suggest what is to be done. The swap manual says swapon <partition > name> will work. Also suggest any good sites for the same. You need to run "mkswap" on the "swap partition" after you created it, example: mkswap /dev/sda3 HTH Colin -- Fedora Core 2, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.8.1 KDE-Redhat-3.3.1-0.2.2.kde Registered Linux user number #342953
