Re: [SLE] 8.1 swapon doesn't work?

10 Nov 2002


      On Sunday 10 November 2002 20.10, Nick Webb wrote:
...
The 'swapon' command doesn't work either:
[nickw@gizmo] ~ > sudo /sbin/swapon /dev/sda2
swapon: /dev/sda2: Invalid argument
"Invalid argument" is returned if there isn't a valid swap signature on the 
device. Try

mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2

and see if that helps

regards
Anders

Re: [SLE] 8.1 swapon doesn't work?

Anders Johansson