Re: [SLUG] swap file creation

[DaZZa <dazza@nospam.zip.com.au>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Ben Donohue wrote:

> i've created the swap partition with fdisk
> i've changed the id to linux swap (82)
> rebooted. (yeah i know... just like windows)
> 
> mkswap /dev/hda3
> setting up swapspace version 0, size = 103215104 bytes
> 
> swapon -a
> swapon: /dev/hda3: device or resource busy.
> 
> fstab has swap in /dev/hda3. this is where swap was origionally.
> reboot again but swap failing
> always busy when swapon /dev/hda3 is typed as well.

Is your disk fsck'd? Could be something is drastically wrong with the disk
- since the swap space was there, and now it's gone away.

Is /dev/hda3 attempting to be mounted somewhere else in fstab? Try typing
"mount" on its own, and see if /dev/hda3 is listed somewhere.

DaZZa

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