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nirvanix

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From: Saskatoon

Registered: 2005-01-31

Posts: 193

SWAP partition problem [SOLVED]

Hi,

I've got a 1 Gb memory system, and for some reason  I had a 4 Gb swap partition on my hard drive. I used cfdisk to redefine it to 2Gb and free up some disk space. It's the same partition /dev/sda3. In fstab it was using the UUID string, but after I made the change the system was complaining about the UUID being incorrect, so I changed the entry in fstab to:
/dev/sda3     swap    swap    defaults 0 0

and got rid of the UUID. I still get a FAIL on bootup of turning on the swap. When I try to do it manually using the 'swapon -a' command or 'swapon /dev/sda3' I get an error message: /dev/sda3 invalid argument.

If I do the 'swapon -s' it shows that I have no swap partition turned on.

thanks.

Last edited by nirvanix (2009-01-08 23:36:57)

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pointone

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From: Waterloo, ON

Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 379

Re: SWAP partition problem [SOLVED]

You re-sized the partition but not the filesystem. Try running "mkswap /dev/sda3" (man mkswap for info) to recreate the swap filesystem.

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Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

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Re: SWAP partition problem [SOLVED]

If you need it, you can find the UUID with

 ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

Last edited by Xyne (2009-01-07 22:31:45)

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nirvanix

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From: Saskatoon

Registered: 2005-01-31

Posts: 193

Re: SWAP partition problem [SOLVED]

Thanks pointone and Xyne! Shit I'm gettin' old, I forgot to mkswap!

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