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sausage

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Registered: 2010-03-23

Posts: 15

File inside swap filesystem after upgrade

so I did a full upgrade with pacman -Syu and now my swap file usage reads 4.5MB steady, without change.  The swap usage has never read anything but 0 since I installed arch so I think the upgrade placed a file inside the swap filesystem.

Is there any way I can access the system at all? My attempts have failed.  Those attempts being attempting to cd to /dev/sda2 as root and attempting to mount the file system to /mnt/usbstick.

mount sda2 /mnt/usbstick
/dev/sda2 looks like swapspace - not mounted
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

and in an unrelated note, I no longer have the ability to read stuff from the usb ports.

Last edited by sausage (2010-04-13 05:28:35)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: File inside swap filesystem after upgrade

You can't mount swap in the normal way. Try reinitialising your swap with mkswap.

Start a new thread for your usb issue, preferably with a bit more detail.

sausage

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Registered: 2010-03-23

Posts: 15

Re: File inside swap filesystem after upgrade

Alright, swap is back to normal, ill start a new thread on the usb thing.