Re: My "swap" space seems to have vanished....

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On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:46 +0100, DB wrote:
(snip)
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *          63      979964      489951   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2          979965    59569019    29294527+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda3        59569020   645507764   292969372+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda4       645507765  1953520064   654006150    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5       645507828   647098199      795186   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> 
> 
> Which seems to me to suggest that the swap partition exists.
> 
> Anyone got any thoughts on how to get the swap recognised??

To test:

  swapon -v /dev/sda5

If that works fine, make it permanent:

  echo "/dev/sda5 swap swap" >>/etc/fstab

Else verify that there's nothing else on there (e.g., a filesystem), and
then reformat for swap with mkswap if necessary.

-Chris

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