From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262285AbVAJO7T (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:59:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262284AbVAJO7S (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:59:18 -0500 Received: from ns.lbox.cz ([62.129.50.35]:21692 "EHLO ns.lbox.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262285AbVAJO7P (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:59:15 -0500 Subject: Re: Re: Support for > 2GB swap partitions? From: Nikola Ciprich To: Justin Piszcz Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:59:03 +0100 Message-Id: <1105369143.3629.2.camel@develbox.linuxbox.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: scanned on linuxbox by AVP 5.0 (aveserver), data 101033 records (22-10-2004) X-Spam-Razor: N/A X-Spam-Score: N/A (whitelist) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org the reason is, that fdisk did set swap partition, but it did not set swap header as it's not its task (as is not creating filesystems). mkswap must be always used while creating new swap partitions/files. On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 05:09 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Oops, for some reason when I created the partitions with fdisk it did not > create the swap parititon correctly even though I specified it was type > swap. mkswap /dev/sda2 && swapon /dev/sda2 fixed the problem, thanks. >