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

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On 06/21/2010 10:19 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> On 06/21/2010 10:03 PM, David C. Rankin 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> mkswap /dev/sdb6
> echo "/dev/sdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
>
swapon -av

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