On Thu, 26 Aug, 1999 à 11:49:05AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > Recenltly, I repartitioned my harddisk. What I did is to delete > the swap parttion(/dev/hda2), created a 2gig linux > partition(/dev/hda2), then created a swap partition(/dev/hda3). > [...] > > Anyway I did a reboot as suggested. But linux still cannot see the > new swap partitions created, dmesg shows the following: > [...] > Unable to find swap-space signature > Unable to find swap-space signature > > My second question: How do I activate the swap partition?? > You could have found the answer in two steps : -$ apropos swap would have listed you all the man pages dealing with swap, then -$ man mkswap would have explained to you all that you needed.
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