Re: swapon not working

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Subject: Re: swapon not working
From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:27:59 +0100
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Dan Track wrote:

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?


Did you format the swap partition?

See "man mkswap"

Paul.

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