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Wouldn't you need to initialize the partition with 'mkswap'?
by kondor6c 13y ago
Wouldn't you need to initialize the partition with 'mkswap'?
- jrockway 13y agoApparently not. Try it :)
- kondor6c 13y agosorry for the old post, but I did try it and it refuses to activate swap on a non-swap enabled device. Now I assume that you had done that a while back (judging from the hda device) so there are probably now some extra safety checks (good thing too!) :-D well I'm sorry for your loss long ago :-) [root@localhost ~]# swapon /dev/sdb swapon: /dev/sdb: read swap header failed: Invalid argument *edited the formating