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ph0tios

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 126

[SOLVED]Swap fails to activate

For some reason my swap is failing to activate. I first noticed it when I was looking at ksysguard, and it said "No swap available". I didn't notice it at first when booting up, because it flashes by so quickly...but it does say failed(I happened to notice this time). Can someone explain to me how I fix this?:/

Last edited by ph0tios (2008-02-27 04:51:50)

DkSoul

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Registered: 2005-11-24

Posts: 34

Re: [SOLVED]Swap fails to activate

Check your swap information in /etc/fstab
If it is correct, check your partition table with:

cfdisk /dev/sdX

X : specifies which disk to check

If your partition table is correct, create and activate your swap with:

mkswap /dev/sdXY

X : specifies the disk
Y : specifies the partition

ph0tios

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Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 126

Re: [SOLVED]Swap fails to activate

DkSoul, thanks for the help! It worked perfectly.

xcession

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From: Udon Thani, Thailand

Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 72

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Re: [SOLVED]Swap fails to activate

Thank! this also helped me too...