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freaks

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Registered: 2010-11-10

Posts: 63

Mkswap error parson UUID

Hello
I want to move my swapfile from /swapfile to /data/swapfile

I execute

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/swapfile2 bs=1M count=16k status=progress

Then

sudo mkswap -U clear /data/swapfile2

But I have this error

mkswap: error: parsing UUID failed

Thanks

Freunte

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Registered: 2023-01-29

Posts: 4

Re: Mkswap error parson UUID

I execute

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/swapfile2 bs=1M count=16k status=progress

Then

sudo mkswap -U clear /data/swapfile2

Try the command without the "-U clear"... as I know a file does not use a UUID, it's only for partitions.