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

[David C. Rankin]

On 06/21/2010 11:35 AM, Dan McGee wrote:
> 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?
> 
> man mkswap
> 

Thanks Dan,

	The clueless found a clue:

[11:27 dcrgx2:~] # swapon -a
swapon: /dev/sdb6: read swap header failed: Invalid argument
[11:30 dcrgx2:~] # mkswap /dev/sdb6
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1951860 KiB
no label, UUID=f50f8c63-9657-4e0b-aca6-ea2250b5193f
[11:46 dcrgx2:~] # vi /etc/fstab
[11:47 dcrgx2:~] # swapon -a

Oh, brother...... :p

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