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

[Dan McGee]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:33 AM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

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