Re: swap partition missing?

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> Hongwei Li wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just found that my fc3 system's swap partition is "gone".  When I
>> installed the system, I set it to 1Gb.  The kernel is 2.6.10-1.766_FC3.
>> I
>> don't know when it started, but here are some information:
>>
>> # free
>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers
>> cached
>> Mem:       1035748     658792     376956          0     145380
>> 272540
>> -/+ buffers/cache:     240872     794876
>> Swap:            0          0          0
>>
>> # cat /etc/fstab
>>
>> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
>> LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    defaults
>> 1 1
>> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620
>> 0 0
>> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults
>> 0 0
>> LABEL=/home1            /home                   ext3
>> defaults,usrquota
>>       1 2
>> LABEL=/opt              /opt                    ext3    defaults
>> 1 2
>> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults
>> 0 0
>> none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults
>> 0 0
>> LABEL=/tmp1             /tmp                    ext3    defaults
>> 1 2
>> LABEL=/usr1             /usr                    ext3    defaults
>> 1 2
>> LABEL=/var1             /var                    ext3
>> defaults,usrquota
>>       1 2
>> LABEL=SWAP-hda7         swap                    swap    defaults
>> 0 0
>> ...
>>
>> I tried this:
>>
>> # swapon -a
>> swapon: cannot find the device for LABEL=SWAP-hda7
>
> Your swap partition probabliy doesn't have a label anymore, or it
> doesn't exist anymore.
>
>>
>> The system log does not show anything related to this problem.  Can
>> somebody tell me what may cause this problem?  how to check it further
>> and
>> fix it?
>>
>
> What is the output from fdisk -l (run by root)?
>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Hongwei Li
>>
>
> Alex

The output is:

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         127     1020096   83  Linux
/dev/hda2             128        2932    22531162+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3            2933        5737    22531162+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4            5738        9729    32065740    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            5738        8542    22531131   83  Linux
/dev/hda6            8543        9307     6144831   83  Linux
/dev/hda7            9308        9562     2048256   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8            9563        9729     1341396   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

What should I do?  Thanks!

Hongwei




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