Re: swap problems

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:56:24 -0400,  Bill Katsma <bkatsma@voyager.net> Wrote:

>I thought I had my swap all set up during the install but I am not sure any
>more.  I get some errors booting up and I pulled out a couple of entries from
>my logs.
>
>Aug 27 18:12:29 junior swapon: swapon: warning: /dev/hdb2 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600 suggested
>Aug 27 18:12:29 junior swapon: swapon: /dev/hdb2: Invalid argument
>Aug 27 18:12:29 junior rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions failed
>Aug 27 22:12:44 junior rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space succeeded
>Aug 27 22:12:52 junior kernel: Unable to find swap-space signature 
>
>First one is pretty self explanatory, already fixed that one.  But the
>invalid argument has got struggling.  I know my swap is setup on my second
>drive but I do not remember where.
>
>Any suggestions?

Go into fdisk like this:
fdisk /dev/hdb

type p
(to print your partitions)
type q
to quit (before you do something you might regret! :)

you'll see what type each partition has, and can go on from there...

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