Hello all. I'm having two issues, sort of related. The first one is that since I reinstalled Win98 on my first disk I'm having swap issues. The second is that the 13GB second drive that Linux resides on is only using 1.4GB of the available space. On bootup I get the error message: Activating swap partitions swapon: /dev/hda2 No such device [FAILED] My /etc/fstab looks as follows: /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdc6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Ok, so I'm seeing that fstab sees two swap partitions... and I don't know what it thinks hda2 could be. So I did an fdisk to find out what the system thinks is the swap file... [root@localhost /root]# fdisk -l /dev/hdc Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1650 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 2 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 3 1650 13237560 5 Extended /dev/hdc5 3 194 1542208+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc6 195 226 257008+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdc7 227 1650 11438248+ 83 Linux Ok, so it thinks /dev/hdc6 is the swap file. So am I correct in thinking I need to run the swapon or mkswap commands? Both? Will I also have to edit /etc/fstab? And what is hdc2? So now I also see where the rest of my Linux disk has gone - /dev/hdc7, that never gets mounted automatically. When I do df -h this is what's reported: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdc5 1.4G 1.1G 308M 78% / /dev/hda1 6.0G 1.2G 4.8G 21% /mnt/DOS_hda1 How can I "combine" hdc5 and hdc7 without destroying my data? Is it possible? I'm getting a new PC soon and will install a clean copy of Mandrake 8.0 on it but I don't want to make the same mistake of installing the OS files onto a small partition, and I don't want to have to install all of my apps, etc onto a different /dev. Any help appreciated, JLucien. -- ___________________________________________ Registered Linux User #223390 "Welcome to the murky underworld of socialist dining"
