Failed to activate swap

Lequatus · 2011-09-04 13:15:57

Hello everybody,
I'm quite new to Arch Linux. My problem is that the system says (it shows that on boot) it couldn't activate the swap.

I have this line in my /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0

"swapon -s" shows this:

Filename				Type		Size	Used	Priority
/dev/sda2                               partition	4996208	0	-1

I also tried "swapon /dev/sda2". What can i do ?

gregor · 2011-09-04 13:29:49

type in console the command free -m

[greglee@PSi_baLL ~]$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3965 707 3257 0 34 385
-/+ buffers/cache: 287 3677
Swap: 0 0 0 <=== i'm not using a swap

if you're swap is in use it would give a number ,the size of you're /dev/sda2

Lequatus · 2011-09-04 13:42:20

It returns exactly the size of sda2. So this error on boot means nothing?

falconindy · 2011-09-04 14:06:58

Please post the exact error from /var/log/boot (or take a photo). swapon should print a useful error message along with it.

Arch Linux

#1 2011-09-04 13:15:57

Failed to activate swap

#2 2011-09-04 13:29:49

Re: Failed to activate swap

#3 2011-09-04 13:42:20

Re: Failed to activate swap

#4 2011-09-04 14:06:58

Re: Failed to activate swap

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