[arch-general] New Arch Install - Swap Won't Activate - Help the clueless?

[David C. Rankin]

Guys,

	I'm laughing at myself for being unable to get swap activated. Initially, when
I breezed through the install, I forgot to set /dev/sdb6 to type 82 so the box
came up with swap off (2G of ram so not much of an issue)

	But now, I want to activate it and I get an error activating swap that frankly,
I have never seen before:

[11:27 dcrgx2:~] # swapon -a
swapon: /dev/sdb6: read swap header failed: Invalid argument

Huh?

	Here are the current details of the install:

[11:26 dcrgx2:~] # cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   8       16  488386584 sdb
   8       17          1 sdb1
   8       21     144522 sdb5
   8       22    1951866 sdb6
   8       23   29294496 sdb7
   8       24  456992991 sdb8
   8        0   39062500 sda
   8        1      40131 sda1
   8        2   39005820 sda2

[11:26 dcrgx2:~] # fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0005cd36

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       60801   488384001    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5   *           1          18      144522   83  Linux
/dev/sdb6              19         261     1951866   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb7             262        3908    29294496   83  Linux
/dev/sdb8            3909       60801   456992991   83  Linux


#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
devpts                 /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
shm                    /dev/shm      tmpfs     nodev,nosuid        0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=30247a6b-c639-4180-9b44-3535ade87de2 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=73356263-d92f-4914-bb0d-07f5611b5709 / ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=de71b9f1-a954-4d41-84c2-926de89d1edb /boot ext3 defaults 0 1

	It looks to me like swap should activate. What am I missing? Thanks for any
insight you can lend here.


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