Re: swap problems

[Bill Katsma <bkatsma@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>Try formatting the swap partition and try "swapon" again:
>
>  mkswap /dev/hdb6
>
>*** Be careful you don't make a typo in your device file, or 
>you will trash all the data in a perfectly good partition!!!
>"mkswap" does not ask for confirmation, it just does it!
>
>--------------------------------------------
>Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
>System Administrator / Network Administrator
>Armstrong International, Inc.
>Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
>http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
>--------------------------------------------

OK changed a few things in fdisk it is now:
    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *         1      2642   1331536+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb2          2643      3049    205128   82  Linux swap
/dev/hdb3          3050      4092    525672    b  Win95 FAT32   

so I did what bruce suggested

mkswap /dev/hdb2 and got this error:
mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40kB
Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] /dev/name [blocks]     

so i did a mkswap /dev/hdb2 200000 and got this
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 204795904 bytes
mkswap: unable to write signature page 

it is 200 meg partition

anything else I should try.?

thanks again


Bill Katsma